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.

Bernard Bernie Marcus, who co-founded retail chain the Home Depot Inc., has died, aged 95. The Billionaire, said to be a major donor

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,