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Jeff Bezos says people have been ‘incorrectly’ taught that success is a villain: ‘You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand’
With $372 billion to his name, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says Americans have been taught to view billionaire success in the wrong light.
Jeff Bezos has taken Amazon from an online bookstore he founded in his garage in 1995—to the No. 1 company on the Fortune 500. His own net worth has soared, too, with a net worth of $372 billion making him the second-richest person in the world. However, the 62-year-old argues that people who view extreme wealth like his own as a bad thing have been taught to think about success…
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