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.