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Preston Fore

Jeff Bezos says people have been ‘incorrectly’ taught that success is a villain: ‘You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand’

Jeff Bezos wearing a bowtie (Credit: Lionel Hahn—Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos has taken Amazon from an online bookstore he founded in his garage in 1994—to the No. 1 company on the Fortune 500. His own net worth has soared, too, reaching $372 billion and 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 the wrong way.

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