'60 Minutes': Jeff Bezos Video
'60 Minutes': Jeff Bezos Video Transcript
>> You generally hear him before you see him. [ Laughter ]
>> It's the ear-piercing laugh of billionaire Jeff Bezos
>> What kind of kid were you?
>> Well, I was a good student. I always worked really hard. I was nerdy.
>> You were nerdy?
>> I was nerdy. That hasn't changed, by the way. The way I made the decision to leave Wall Street and do this was, you know, sound geeky to you, but it was a regret minimization framework. So this is how I actually made the decision -- [ Multiple voices speaking ]
>> -- if I understand it, if I can translate that into English I can deal with -- does that mean I want to live my life so that in a few decades from now I'm not going regret it.
>> That's exactly right. I want to have lived my life in such a way that when I'm 80 years old I've minimized the numbers of regret that's I have. And I think actually a lot of people do that. I think even if they don't, you know, call it something as dorky as regret minimization framework, they behave that way anyway. They think that way.
>> But for you, it was not carpe diem, it was not wine, women, and song.
>> No. No, no, no. I don't go in for carpe diem, I go in for regret minimization framework. [ Laughter ] ^M00:01:11 [ Ticking clock ] ^M00:01:15
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