Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, died Monday at the age of 95. But it's how he lived that's worth celebrating. Marcus wasn't just one of America's great entrepreneurs and philanthropists. He was a fierce advocate for free enterprise and the American dream because his life story embodied both.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the co-founder of The Home ... But even more importantly, he valued our associates, customers and communities above all. He’s left us with an ...

Bernie Marcus, who came up with a revolutionary business idea in the late 1970s — create a do-it-yourself, big-box suburban outlet that would seem more warehouse than store — and, with a partner, turned it into the Home Depot,

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a Republican megadonor and an evangelist of capitalism.

Bernie Marcus cofounded the Atlanta-based Home Depot chain of home-improvement stores and supported many charitable causes such as the Marcus Jewish Community Center.