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

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 the wrong way.

“I think we live in an environment where some people have been taught, I think incorrectly, but taught, that this whole kind of oppressor/oppressed framework, and success is villainy,” Bezos recently told Fox News. 

“Success is not villainy. You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand.”

Bezos pointed to how someone could start with a simple food stand with 10 or so workers, grow it into a business with thousands of locations and employees, and eventually become a billionaire.

“This is how it works,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with making unbelievably good chicken that people love. And it doesn’t make him a bad person.”

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