Amazon's founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos says the best way to deal with stress and anxiety is to focus on work. The statements are from 2017, but have now been recovered at a time when Amazon has fired more than 57,000 people since 2022.
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27/07/2026
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O founder and former CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, believes that the best remedy for stress and anxiety is work. These statements were made by Bezos in 2017 and were recovered this week by Fortune, at a time when the technological giant is firing thousands of workers.
Bezos’ comments were made on a trip to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, U.S.A., before a student audience, where he claimed that the feeling of anxiety would disappear as soon as he began to act on the subject of anxiety.
“ I understood that stress goes away the moment I take the first step”, told Bezos, stating that the worst you can do to deal with anxiety is do nothing. Amazon's founder says that over the years, he realized that gathering allies to solve problems was the best way to deal with stress sources.
“ There is nothing more fun than going into a division with a group of inventors and saying, ‘Here’s the problem, let’s come up with a solution’”Bezos explained. “ Once you start doing this, turn something that can create stress into something that creates fun”.
As the the Next Web siteAmazon has fired more than 57,000 people since 2022. More recently, the company fired 14,000 people in october of 2025 and more 16 thousand people in late january this year.