The risk-taker: How Joe Agresti built a business empire on accounting, culture and a will to be weird

Dream Motor Group founder Joe Agresti’s net worth is estimated at between $1.2 billion and $1.3 billion. He’s now eyeing a run for the U.S. Senate.

When Joe Agresti used his life savings and mortgaged his parents’ New Jersey home to buy into a failing Baton Rouge Mercedes-Benz dealership in 2004, his mother was terrified. His father’s respons…


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