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Quotes & Notes:
- When I say I’m practicing full time, it means I’m producing full time in part time hours. If I can produce full time and still have free time at the same time, then that is the best of both worlds.
- “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read” – Charlie Tremendous Jones.
- First you have to find a mentor when you are green, when you are a rookie… and then you have to be a mentor for others as you season, when you learn the lay of the land.
- Keep a balanced life. Every part of your life has to be supported by someone who has been there before you.
- I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but lived around the whole south. I lived in 30 houses by the time I was 18.
- I was working since I was 14 years old.
- In my childhood it [the most influential person] was my scout-leader. I had an eagle scout as my scoutmaster who was a medical student.
- I went from zero to about a million and a half in the first 23 years of practice back in the 70s and 80s.
- Don’t ever finance a sale yourself, because you will never be free.
- The first thing you really want to focus on is becoming an expert in every area of dentistry that you can. At some point in time you will have to learn business and marketing.
- Hang around people that know how to do it [marketers and entrepreneurs]. Choosing mentors that aren’t dentists.
- One way we like to give back is by doing the Deserving Divas where we do multiple full mouth makeovers for free. It transforms their lives and makes us feel good.
- I felt like I got more out of the mission trip, then doing the makeovers. They don’t have access to simple things such as pulling a tooth.
- I often say to my associates that I don’t sweat. I don’t fear doing anything in dentistry.
- If you have it made, why risk it.
- I thought I knew more, and went ahead and blew it all. Over the next decade, I probably went and lost everything I had.
- Dr. Bill Williams would recommend his book Marketing the Million Dollar Practice; 27 steps to grow your practice half a million dollars a year”
- Get outside of that box, whatever box you are in. Take a class from a person who is more successful than you. If you want to be a millionaire you need to learn from a billionaire. You have to go beyond, don’t just do the same things you have always done.
- Set big goals each year and work on your 90-day plans.
- Be found everywhere and be found often.
- You can reach Dr. Bill Williams in a Multitude of places:
- On 100newpatientsamonth.com you can get his book.
- On Linkedin, you can find him at Bill Williams DMD, also at The million-dollar associate, which is his private group.
- His practice website is suwaneedental.com, and you can email him at [email protected].
