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Aug 2, 2020 · Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus were fired from Handy Dan Home Improvement in 1978, but they started Home Depot with their low-price and well-trained employee idea. Home Depot became a huge success and made them both billionaires.
Oct 10, 2008 · In 1978, when co-founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank stated that they wanted to make The Home Depot the Sears Roebuck of the home-improvement industry, a lot of people...
Learn how The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, started from a coffee shop in Los Angeles in 1978. Discover the vision, values and achievements of its co-founders, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, and their team.
In 1999, Marcus, along with Arthur Blank and Bob Andelman, wrote the book Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion. Marcus, with Catherine Lewis, wrote a book titled Kick Up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking, Giving Back and Doing It Yourself.
The Home Depot co-founder, Arthur Blank, shares the story of when he and Bernard Marcus were simultaneously fired from their executive roles and how it serve...
Dec 29, 2022 · Modern counterparts of Marcus and Blank are still out there, the veteran retailer believes. But there is no longer as much incentive to take the risks they took when they opened two stores in...
Aug 31, 2020 · Forty-two years after he set off to found a bigger and better hardware store with Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank still thinks of the world's largest home improvement retailer, Home Depot, as his...
