greatest american business man in the last 100 years???????

**Murder after Midnight** · 07-31-2014, 05:52 PM

topic???????? Who you got?

***SMWS6TA*** · 07-31-2014, 07:29 PM

hummm....so many.....

Top of the (my) list....love him/hate him

Bill Gates.
Howard Hughes
Hugh Hefner

**0rion** · 07-31-2014, 10:51 PM

100 years? That's going back a ways....I have trouble remembering yesterday. Up near the top of that list though has to be the douchebag that started facebook.

**theorangeguy** · 08-01-2014, 05:00 AM

How about the builders of america...?

Andrew Carnegie - He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (the equivalent of approximately $13.6 billion in 2013), creating the U.S. Steel Corporation.

John D. Rockefeller - built the oil industry in the US and was worth more than $1 billion before he retired in the 1900's...he was the richest man in the world back then and would easily be the richest man in the world today if you accounted for how things have changed.

JP Morgan - merged Edison Electric and Thomas-Houston Electric company to form General Electric. He was the dominate force in banking and corporate financing back then. He also helped fund Rockefeller's and Carnegie's businesses...

Todays list would consist of

Steve Jobs - he actually listened to consumers and didnt just build stuff to build it...he built what people wanted.

Warren Buffett - no explanation needed...the government goes to him for help and you can have lunch with him for like $5 million and he'll tell you how to become a billionaire within the next year

Samuel Walton - Walmart...nuff said lol

and good ole Harland Sanders...man built an empire off of chicken

whats funny is that I prefer Popeyes...I rarely ever eat at KFC, but the guy built an empire off of it...

**Zinergy** · 08-01-2014, 05:05 AM

Its hard to compare business men from 100 years ago to those of today. Much less regulation = easier to make money. Even if some of their practices were wrong.... they were legal at the time.

**theorangeguy** · 08-01-2014, 05:07 AM

Originally Posted by Zinergy

Its hard to compare business men from 100 years ago to those of today. Much less regulation = easier to make money. Even if some of their practices were wrong.... they were legal at the time.

I updated my list and added some current ones...I wouldnt say today is any better when it comes to regulation and what people do to make money. Insider trading is worse imo and the government is more involved with funneling money to person X or company Y than it was back then. The thing that I dont agree with from back then is how they worked people and how they paid them...they would literally work you to death which is how unions got started.

**FasstChevys** · 08-01-2014, 07:22 AM

Warren Buffet gets my vote.

**TLS_Addict** · 08-01-2014, 09:09 AM

L Ron Hubbard.

He came up with complete bullshit and people not only believe it but they pay to be in the church!

And the due who sold the Pet Rock. hahah

**theorangeguy** · 08-01-2014, 09:11 AM

Originally Posted by TLS_Addict

L Ron Hubbard.

He came up with complete bullshit and people not only believe it but they pay to be in the church!

And the due who sold the Pet Rock. hahah

what about the guy who sold a jar of "wind" from hurricane katrina...? If the Pet Rock dude is on the list, the wind guy has to be in the top 5

***SMWS6TA*** · 08-01-2014, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by TLS_Addict

L Ron Hubbard.

He came up with complete bullshit and people not only believe it but they pay to be in the church!

And the due who sold the Pet Rock. hahah

Originally Posted by theorangeguy

what about the guy who sold a jar of "wind" from hurricane katrina...? If the Pet Rock dude is on the list, the wind guy has to be in the top 5

Yeah I'm going to change my list based on this.

**theorangeguy** · 08-01-2014, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by SMWS6TA

Yeah I'm going to change my list based on this.

dont forget about the guy who sold the piece of toast with Jesus' face on it...

**TLS_Addict** · 08-01-2014, 11:14 AM

Cheesus? hahaha

**theorangeguy** · 08-01-2014, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by TLS_Addict

Cheesus? hahaha

I'm pretty sure it was buttered toast and not cheese toast

I did find this one tho...it would qualify as Cheesus.

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**0rion** · 08-01-2014, 11:20 AM

maybe that was just Jesus' way of protesting toast that's burned that much??

**TLS_Addict** · 08-01-2014, 12:01 PM

Or.....maybe, he wants us to eat him. Bread is the body of Christ. In some instances a cracker. You have a bite to eat, do a shot, confess some sins, and bam! All is forgiven.

**theorangeguy** · 08-01-2014, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by TLS_Addict

Or.....maybe, he wants us to eat him. Bread is the body of Christ. In some instances a cracker. You have a bite to eat, do a shot, confess some sins, and bam! All is forgiven.

**KahanaReef** · 08-01-2014, 12:16 PM

How many stupid ass Chia Pets were sold? They are still being sold. Obama even has one

***SMWS6TA*** · 08-01-2014, 12:24 PM

Sea Monkeys......enough said.

***SMWS6TA*** · 08-01-2014, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by TLS_Addict

Or.....maybe, he wants us to eat him. Bread is the body of Christ. In some instances a cracker. You have a bite to eat, do a shot, confess some sins, and bam! All is forgiven.

funny how much attendance has dropped since they switched it out to grape juice instead of wine.

**theorangeguy** · 08-01-2014, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by SMWS6TA

funny how much attendance has dropped since they switched it out to grape juice instead of wine.

if I was catholic "no offense" i'd have to drink just to make it through church.

Half of our family is catholic "on the italian side" went to my first catholic funeral like 2-3 years ago...talk about an interesting experience.