CHAPTER SIX                          VALUES

Work and Money

Our Opportunity

May the Best Win!

   

Chapter

6

Contribution

“Why” is far more important than “what”.

We have chosen to promote the end of dental disease because it is about time somebody did.

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ach person has only one life to live, and only so many years to make a contribution to the whole of society.  Whether by raising children at home, volunteering, or working in the commercial world, each of us wants to  make a contribution to the betterment of our community and the world around us. 

Each of us wants the rewards (money, food, shelter, stuff) that come in return for making a contribution. In the Apollonia Family, we have dedicated ourselves to making our contribution in the area of improving dental health.  There certainly is no shortage of people who need our help!

Chapter key

§          Work and Money

§          Our Opportunity

§          May the Best Win!

 

 

As you spend more time with us, you will see the devastation and suffering that comes from the mismanagement, poor marketing, inconsistent product quality, and inadequate planning so common in the dental profession.  You will understand more each day, why we are “on a mission” to improve the development, marketing, and delivery of dental care in our community, our state, and our nation.

Work and Money

§         The purpose of work is to help others.

§         The purpose of money is to reward and strengthen those who work.

§         When we help others, we grow stronger.

§         When we grow stronger, we can do more work.

§         When we do more work, we help more people.

§         Those who help the most, have the best lives.

Our Opportunity

How much money you have (your net worth), represents the amount of work you have done for others less the amount of work others have done for you.

§         80% of Americans have active gum disease that causes heart disease, stroke, lung infection, pain, swelling, lost teeth, bad breath (yuck!) and other illness.

§         More than half of all Americans loose all of their teeth to disease.

§         Most Americans have dental decay, costing billions of dollars to treat.

§         Virtually all decay is caused by bacteria that can only come from other decay.

§         Virtually all gum disease is controllable with simple effective treatments.

§         Americans spend over $60,000,000,000 (that’s BILLION) dollars on dental care each year, and this is what they get!

§         Don’t look, but we have a long way to go before running out of customers!!!

May the Best Win!

§         If we are the best, we can win big.

§         If we are not the best, we can copy those who are.

§         Either way, by trying to win, we make the world a better place!