Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received his college education at Princeton University. When he graduated from Princeton, he began to work on Wall Street, and in a matter of four years he created an online bookstore that is known as Amazon. As a founder of Amazon, now one of the world’s biggest corporate companies, he is a model of what entrepreneur, innovator, and business men/women should try to imitate. Jeff Bezos considers the skill of preparation an essential one. According to the excerpt from CNN.com: “he is the same way internally, though unforgiving of anyone who is ill-prepared. ‘He is very demanding,’ says a former insider. ‘He gets angry when he feels like people aren't being competent.” Every business owner must protect the functionality of their business. Like the Chinese General Sun Tzu Wu said “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat, if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, yo...

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