quarta-feira, 1 de outubro de 2008

Monge-empresário cisterciense


By Bob Dotson

TODAYShow.com contributor

updated 12:34 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2008


Bernard McCoy is the worst-paid CEO in the country. His business makes millions in profits per year selling ink and toner online, but his annual pay is ... zero.


That’s because Father Bernard is a monk — one of nine brothers who pray, work and live at Our Lady of Spring Bank Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in west central Wisconsin.


“One day I went online to order some toner for the monastery's printer,” Father Bernard recalls, “and found that the markup on ink supplies was sinfully high.” So the monks launched a Web site, LaserMonks.com, to sell discounted computer printer products.


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