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The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness.




#64: J.P. Morgan (1837-1914)

J.P. Morgan (1837-1914) was an American businessman, financier and banker.

Morgan's intelligence and unwavering commitment to the facts of reality allowed him to achieve great success. Specifically, Morgan possessed unique skill at transforming struggling business structures and management to make them highly profitable.

His wealth-creating skills in numerous industries, such as steel and railroads, helped to transform America from an agrarian nation into the industrial and economic leader of the world -- a transformation that most of the world's population still greatly benefits from to this day.

Far from being a "robber baron," he and many other businessmen of his time were instrumental in bringing about historically unprecedented economic progress, benefiting millions of people.



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