![]() She loaned New York City $2.5 million between 18, but was always wary of gold diggers and ignored most pleas for money. Working from a borrowed desk at Chemical National Bank in Manhattan, and rumored to eat oatmeal warmed on a radiator, Green watched her fortune grow. Scrupulous investment in government securities, railroad bonds and real estate turned a $5 million inheritance from her father in 1865 into $26 million by 1885. ![]() Morgan: Buy low, sell high and never panic. She used a simple investment strategy to compete with the likes of Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Green’s legendary stinginess and dour demeanor earned her the sobriquet “Witch of Wall Street,” but her business smarts put her on par with the craftiest financial wizards of the Gilded Age and made her the richest woman in the world. ![]() ![]() Hetty Green could pinch a penny till it begged for mercy. ![]()
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