Jeff Bezos
BB MEETS AFRICA
Jeff Bezos
By BB Meets Africa the :
- 8 June, 2021
Jeff Bezos born on January 12 , 1964 in New Mexico is an known as an entrepreneur, industrialist , media owner and billionaire based in the United States. He is also known as the founder and CEO of Amazon.
He loves computers, he studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University, he graduated, worked on Wall Street, and by the year 1990 he had become the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E. Shaw. After four years, he quit his job and opened Amazon.com which has now become one of the biggest success stories.
Bezos showed interest in how things work, he turned his parents’ garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house as a child. The whole family moved to Miami when he was a teenager, where he developed a love for computers and graduated valedictorian of his high school. It was during high school that he started his first business, the Dream Institute, an educational summer camp for fourth, fifth and sixth graders.
He has worked hard over the years and enjoys what he does and that is what has made him the founder and CEO of the successful Amazon that many know about today.
Bezos married MacKenzie and they got divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage. They have four children, three sons and an adopted daughter from China.
Some Inspirational Quotes From Jeff Bezos
- If you don’t love your work, you’re never going to be great at it.
If you get your work life to be where you enjoy half of, that is amazing because very few people ever achieve that because the truth is everything comes with overhead. That’s reality, everything comes with pieces that you don’t like, every job comes with pieces you don’t like and we need to say that’s part of it.
- Think About Your Choices
We all have gifts but always remember our gifts do not construct our lives, our choices do.You can choose a life of ease and comfort or you can choose a life of service and adventure. How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? When it’s tuff, will you give up or will you be relentless? It’s all about choices and in the end we are our choices. Build yourself a great story by making the right choice.
LESSON LEARNT:
Whatever choices we make makes us who we are. At the end of the day our choices will bring out the real us. I choose hard work over being lazy, I choose a life of service and adventure over living a life of ease.
