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<div id="pastingspan1" style="">When I was little, maybe 10, my Uncle Al pulled me aside and said something like &#8220;if you want to be rich, then you shouldn&#8217;t have a family.&#8221; Yikes. I don&#8217;t remember the context of why he said that to me; I must&#8217;ve been talking to him about parlaying all my paper routes into an empire.</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div><span style=""><strong>Appreciate what matters</strong></span></div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">Even though I didn&#8217;t recognize at the time why he was saying it, he definitely made me think. I thought about it then, and I&#8217;ve thought about it in the last few years as I have come around on some financial success. I&#8217;ll go so far as to say that I&#8217;ve proceeded in business with a very heightened awareness for the things I love in life, and a strong commitment not to &#8220;sell&#8221; those things for money.</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">The truth is that I have been very blessed, and I have plenty of money at this point in my life to have the things I want and need.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">I&#8217;ve been there for a little while. I&#8217;m doing my job now for the thrill and accomplishment, pure and simple. I love the people I work with and I love the work we do together. This is getting fun.</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">I saw one of the people that won 500 million dollars on TV yesterday morning. Everyone thinks they want to be him. I just looked at the guy and wondered how eff&#8217;d up his life just got. Seriously, what if that guy was happy as a lark yesterday? You think he&#8217;s going to be happy as a million larks tomorrow? I have my doubts.</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">Don&#8217;t get me wrong. If you don&#8217;t have enough money to live a decent life, then you need money or you need help. That&#8217;s why I and <a href="http://www.toppersfranchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=my-uncle-al-won-the-powerball-3423" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toppers Pizza</a> strongly support the good work of <a href="http://www.feedingamerica.org/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=my-uncle-al-won-the-powerball-3423" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feeding America</a>. But, if you have what you need, then be careful what you hope for.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">Sometimes people say &#8220;so are you?&#8221; I always say &#8220;Yes, in the things that matter.&#8221; You might think that&#8217;s easy for me to say. I&#8217;ve got mine.</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style=""><strong>Uncle Al helped me learn to live</strong></div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">Listen brother and sister, you probably have yours too. I won the Powerball a long time ago. I won it when I was born into a great family with great values. I won it when I met my wife and when we had each of our 5 kids.</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">I won it last summer when I went wilderness camping alone with my daughter. I won it when Uncle Al helped me learn how to live.</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style="">Fellow traveler,</div><div style="">&nbsp;</div><div id="pastingspan1" style=""><a href="http://scottgittrich.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=my-uncle-al-won-the-powerball-3423" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></div><div style=""></div>

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Scott Gittrich is the founder and CEO of Toppers Pizza. These are his thoughts on life, leadership and pizza.

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