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We are just in the business of dentistry in a BIG way.
- We’ve got a program called the affiliate program, where we basically spend five years with a dentist helping build their ideal practice, and helping them manage and grow it.
- I don’t put up with BS. I don’t play political games.
- Auditing creates lasting implementation and efficiencies.
- I was born in Amsterdam. I moved to the United States in fifth grade.
- I grew up in kind of the opposite of entrepreneurial thinking. But I did grow up with a lot of support.
I didn’t change my thinking until my senior year of dental school. I was going to be an endodontist, because I thought it would be secure income with little work . . . The dental school professor just handed me a book and said “Hey you should read this book.” And that book was Rich Dad, Poor Dad. And I read that book and thought, “Oh my god why haven’t I thought about the business before.”
- Most of the people in my life are doing things today I don’t want to do. They are living a life I don’t want to live. So in a way, I kind of broke away from everyone else.
- Even today, I am not ready to make a decision I shouldn’t make, even if I am given the right information. I am not going to do the things I need to do until the time is right.
- There comes a point when you start learning something different because you are at a new level, a new size.
- At one point we may be lectured to fifty dentists a year, and now twelve hundred this year.
- It just doesn’t have to be that complicated.
- There were a lot of opportunities to build new practices, so I decided, “You know what? I can’t sit here and do nothing. I’m going to go build more practices.”
- I’ve had several years, where I have lost over a million dollars in cash. I’ve had a ton of failures.
- Not knowing what I don’t know. Being on a path and not knowing something vital [is what I am scared of].
- Having to invent the wheel every time is a major barrier [to success].
- It’s just as easy to think bigger as it is to think smaller.
- Be very methodical and slow with implementation to be sure that it actually fits and it makes a long term difference.
- I think there are three big keys to success, and overcoming those fears and excuses. The first one starts with getting the right information. Step two is then having the leadership qualities to actually do it. To actually pull the trigger and lead other people down that path. Step three is the one that a lot of people often miss, and that is having people force you to do the right thing, having advisors.
- The book that Dr. Scott Leune suggests every dentist to read is The E-Myth, by Michael E. Gerber.
If you want to learn more from Dr. Scott Leune, you can email him at [email protected] or go to his website breakawaypractice.com.
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