{"id":423,"date":"2008-03-27T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/comment-competition-winner-from-last-week\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:47:53","slug":"comment-competition-winner-from-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/comment-competition-winner-from-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Competition Winner from Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In last weeks article The End of Wealth<\/a>, we offered a small prize of a $20 Amazon gift certificate to one person who left a comment.<\/p>\n

The winner we have chosen is Bruce from Brucisms<\/a>. He said:<\/p>\n

“I believe we are turning a corner. After two decades of working 80 hours per week to have the nicest house, car, clothes – a lot of people are just tired and empty.<\/p>\n

It is my (possibly overly optimistic) belief that there is a true movement toward responsibility and values. I think we see this both in terms of increased interest in both spirituality and conservation. I think a lot of us have awakened after a couple of decades of materialism to a hangover, and realize that we aren\u2019t kids anymore.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that wasn’t all. As a follow up, Bruce had the following book suggestion:<\/p>\n

“As a follow up for your readers – I would highly recommend Jason Jennings\u2019 wonderful book \u201cThink Big, Act Small<\/a>.\u201d After researching the top public and private companies in the US, he and his team narrowed the field to 10 companies that had achieved 10{54c12dad2cc2b53ae830e39915b1a3e70288dbcbbeb8bbf8395437c5dc3c512c} increases in profit every year for 10 or more consecutive years. The extraordinary thing is that the common factor in all these companies were exceptionally high values!<\/p>\n

It seems that doing the right thing pays the best over the long term\u2026”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you to every one who left a comment. You had some very interesting things to say, and it certainly wasn’t easy to pick just one winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last weeks article The End of Wealth, we offered a small prize of a $20 Amazon gift certificate to one person who left a comment.<\/p>\n

The winner we have chosen is Bruce from Brucisms. He said:
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