2 Quotes & Sayings By John Marks Templeton

John Templeton was born in 1894 in Gloucester, Massachusetts and died in 1991. His father was a wealthy industrialist and his grandfather had been the controlling shareholder of the Scottish-American Bank. He was educated at Harvard and at Cambridge University, where he studied philosophy and economics. After graduating from Harvard he spent a year at the London School of Economics before returning to America to work for his father's company, which supplied industrial chemicals to electric companies across the country Read more

In 1929 he joined the newly formed American Oil Refining Company, where he focused on research and development.