home depo

burneys father was a carpenter

but he was bad at business

in september 1932  his partner aurther was born and was 13 years younger

he wanted to become a sicatrist

but he didnt make it to harvard

he was co owner of a pharmacy

his father died when he was 15 years old

he played on affence and defense on his high school football team

he got A houners and was student [resedent

he moved from company to comany

eventually they both ended up working at the same company witch was a home hardware store called handy dan

they quit at handy dan and got the idea to start another compay that would put all other home hardeware store out of business
for a base of operation they chose atlanta
they did not habe enought money to totally stock the store so they faked it
they used empty boxes
evryone was totally broke
one of the keys to there succees was how they trained and treated there employese
in the first year they lost almost one million dollars
but by the end of the second year they started makeing profit
the home depot destroyed all competettors
they grew more in the first 20 years then wal mart
in 1986 there sales top over a billion dollars
the home depot desided to sponser the olympics in 1992
in 1996 they were over 17 years old and had 500 store

home depot had a rival called lowes

this caused them to change management

marcus is now worth 1.6 billion

aurther is worth 1.3 billion