5 unusual rules of life Amazon head Jeff Bezos

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos often attracts the attention of the audience with their original and sometimes controversial business practices. Take even his innovations in the publishing world, although usually that Amazon employees have to pay for parking - in short, Bezos is clearly not a boring person

. Marketer and author of Entrepreneur Alp Mimaroglu decided to find out how original Bezos outside the office.

Like it or not you, it is impossible to ignore business success Bezos. Recently, he took fifth place in the list of Forbes billionaires - his fortune is estimated at $ 45, 2 billion

. But what this famous entrepreneur do when not working? Does he have any hobbies besides the desire to become an online monopoly? And what can we learn from this man superuspeshnogo?




1. He sleeps, with a lot

Unlike many CEO of, sleeping only four hours a day, in an interview with Wall Street Journal Bezos talked about the importance of sleep. He would sleep for eight hours every night and considered the best remedy for sleep stress and overtime. They said even that he brought to the office of the sleeping bag to be able to take a nap a little in the most difficult days. In addition, Bezos does not use the alarm clock: it says that it is much better when you wake up naturally. And sleep researchers agree.

2. He has a terrific hobby

It's so elitist, expensive and niche entertainment that only Bezos, as far as we know, doing it. At the first opportunity he scours the oceans in search of NASA space ships. Most of the rocket separated from the space shuttle in flight, and for safety reasons it is necessary to do over the ocean. Bezos with several teams submarine works hard to raise from the seabed, these historical artifacts. In the pursuit of one of these missiles, he spent three weeks.

3. He comes up with all the new and new projects

Manage only one for Amazon Bezos is no longer enough, so that it takes up new businesses. He bought The Washington Post, one of the most respected newspapers in America. While he did not change anything there, except for loading speed of pages.

In 2000, even before Elon Musk, Bezos created a space company Blue Origin. Its purpose - to give everyone the opportunity to visit the space

. He is also trying to further simplify the delivery process of goods to Amazon, using drones. Unless, of course, the government will allow.

4. In the morning, he does what pleases

Unlike Steve Jobs, who ate the same thing for breakfast, so do not waste your energy on these decisions, Bezos is trying to look for fresh impressions. It is said that one day he ordered the octopus for breakfast with bacon and garlic yoghurt, to better understand the preferences of another CEO of, whose company he eventually bought.

Bezos - not a supporter of a hard morning's schedule, he was not satisfied with the meeting in the morning and prefer to spend time in the company of native

. 5. He is a family man

The biological father Bezos, until recently, did not even know that he was alive. But Bezos himself is trying to be a good father and puts family first. And he has a big family, like Elon Musk. As we have noted, he always tries to have breakfast with the family, taking his wife and four stepchildren its archaeological projects on submarines and did try to participate in family life, in spite of his busy schedule.

In general, we can say that Bezos does almost everything he wants. But the main lesson, perhaps, is that planning your daily schedule, Bezos puts family and health higher than business. And you?