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Jeff Preston Bezos is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Amazon. Born on January 12, 1964, Jeff Bezos is also an American technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. Amazon began as an online bookstore and has now expanded to selling multiple varieties of products and services, like video and audio streaming, cloud infrastructure services, office products, etc. Today, Amazon sells over 480 million products in the USA.   Jeff Bezos overtook Bill Gates to become the richest person in the World in July 2017, following an increase in Amazon’s stock. He was designated the “wealthiest person in modern history” after his net worth increased to $150 billion. Bezos is still the richest person in the world to date with an estimated net worth of  162 billion USD . He is also the first centi-billionaire on the Forbes wealth index.  Like Jeff Bezos says, stress com

Drake, born Aubrey Drake Graham is a Canadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. Drake is one of the most prominent rappers of his generation and an iconic figure in the music industry. He started his career in the early 2000s as an actor in the TV series  Degrassi: The Next Generation , before embarking on his musical career in 2007. Drake faced a number of adversities in his childhood - his parents divorcing when he was only five, his father getting arrested for drug-related charges, and others. Growing up, he was also bullied at school for being black and Jewish.  Drake holds several Billboard records, including the most charted songs (186) among solo artists in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. Drake's multiple accolades include: three Grammy Awards, three Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, and 13 Billboard Music Awards. Drake's fifth album, Scorpion, made him the first artist to top one billion streams in one week. Champagnepa

Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher, and is credited as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought. Socrates was a widely admired and recognized, (though controversial) figure in ancient Greek philosophy. Admired by philosophers  like Xenophon and Plato (who were his students), Socrates was portrayed in their works as a man of integrity, insight, and self-mastery. We can benefit from his wisdom by reading and appreciating the meaning in his quotes. A few are enlisted below.  1.  “Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”  ―  Socrates 2.  “Every action has its pleasures and its price.”  ―  Socrates 3.  “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”  ―  Socrates 4.  “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”  ―  Socrates , Essential Thinkers - Socrates 5.  “Is it true; is it kind, or