Read these two brilliant quotes from one of the world’s richest men and tell us if it sounds like he’s secretly reading the HOTLINE every day, because some of these comments come verbatim from these pages:

First, this one on out-of-control government spending as a “skills issue”:

We don’t have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world…

We actually have a spending problem and that’s a skills issue. I mean, let me give you an example. The New York City school system. They spend $44,000 per student, $44,000. That’s 30 percent more per student than other big cities like Chicago, L.A., and Boston. And it’s three times more than Miami and Houston. And by the way, New York City doesn’t get better outcomes…

If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system–

Your packages would take six weeks to arrive. We’d have to charge you a $100 delivery fee. And then when the package did finally arrive, it’d have the wrong item in it anyway.

Second, on how his business success does much more good for the world than his amazing philanthropic endeavors:

Even though I’m going to give away the majority of my wealth if I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving… Amazon creates tremendous value. And by the way, all companies are creating value of some kind. That’s why people are voluntarily giving them money…

Everybody out there who’s a potential entrepreneur make sure you focus on that. You will be creating value for society if you’re successful at pleasing your customers.