New York Post
I met Bernie Marcus, the great entrepreneur, philanthropist and free-market evangelist, last week at his spacious home in Boca Raton Fla. — and of course, he wasted no time letting me know how he really feels.
“I’m in a particularly pissed-off mood,” Marcus told me as we sat down. “I’ve got a lot on my mind. This is going to be some interview.”
I told him I expected nothing less.
Marcus is best known as one of the founders of Home Depot, teaming up with financier Ken Langone and businessman Arthur Blank to create from scratch a company that employs nearly a half-million people working in thousands of stores across the country.
Yet the basics of the Home Depot story don’t do justice to Marcus’ legacy. He’s a voluble billionaire and a proud conservative activist who grew up in a fourth-floor Newark, NJ, tenement apartment…
