Dean Roberts was born in 1939. He was Expelled from school in 1956 and Joined the Navy in 1957. He Spent the next 40 yrs having 2 kids, 3 wives , building and operating Greenleafdollhouses.com .
He loves Reading , writing , traveling , staying fit , learning how to control his head and playing way to much poker. So now his plan is to write and help people See and Actualize the many possibilities Of life.
Entrepreneur Role Models
Napoleon Hill
When business started difficulties overcame:
For years I struggled with money and no particular vision for the future. But then when I got Napoleon Hill’s book, ‘think and grow rich’ I read it, and re-read and started to set goals and things started to get better. [Listen for More]
Favourite Books
Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill The Success System That Never Fails Book by William Clement Stone Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude Book by Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone Tony Robbins Books WC Stone (William Clement Stone) 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Book by Stephen CoveyThe master game Book by Robert S. de Ropp
I’ll Fix My Head Before I’m Dead Book by Dean Roberts Sr.Favourite Quote
“A promise made is a debt unpaid.” – Robert W. Service (The Cremation of Sam McGee)
‘Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.’ Ayn Rand
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
By skillful means one can live comfortably even in hell – Robert de Ropp
Favourite Online Resource
Dave Asprey Podcast Bulletproof Exec
Best Advice to other entrepreneurs:
Making yourself accountable, I am talking about giving your word to other people, and I have done that pretty consistently throughout most of my adult life…[Listen for More]
More About Dean Roberts
Green Earth Health Food Market
I’ll Fix My Head Before I’m Dead Book by Dean Roberts Sr.Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might NOT want to look unsure” Heston Blumenthal
Other quotes from Dean Roberts in the chat:
“everyday I feel a tremendous sense of gratitude”
“Journaling is a tremendously important way of self-discovery and making yourself accountable”
“I am really very committed to sharing what I have learned”
“so much in life is preparation.”
“our outside is a reflection of what we can do inside”
#00:00:54-4# Neil: Hello everybody its Neil Ball here, thank you so much for joining me today on The Entrepreneur Way. The entrepreneur way is about the entrepreneur’s journey, the vision, the mindset, the committment, the sacrifice, failures and successes. I am so excited to bring you our special guest today, Dean Roberts. But before I introduce you to him, I just have a little bit of trivia for you, Heston Blemenfo said, ‘and I like asking questions to keep learning, people with big egos might not want to look unsure.’ The Entrepreneur Way asks the questions so we get the insight, inspiration and ideas to apply in our businesses. Dean, welcome to the show, are you ready to share your version with the entrepreneur way with us? #00:01:42-7# Dean Roberts: I’m ready thanks for having me. #00:01:46-3# Neil: Thank you Dean. Dean Roberts was born in 1939, he was expelled from school in 1956 and joined the Navy in 1957. He spent the next 40 years having two kids, three wives, building and operating Greenleafdollhouses.com. He loves reading, writing, travelling, staying fit, learning how to control his head, and playing way too much poker. So now is plan is to write and help people see and actualise the many possibilities of life. Dean, can you provide us with some more insight into your business and personal life? to allow us to get to know more about you and what you do and who you are? #00:02:34-7# Dean Roberts: When I got out of the Navy I went to work in a family sterile dye business, my mother and father had a small shop in Brooklyn New York, and I learned how to become a sterile dye maker and for about ten years my father and I operated the business just the two of us. And then I began to, we bought a dye cutting press and I began to dye cut different cardboard and plywood items, and from that we designed a couple of bird houses, bird feeders, and my mother and father retired around that time. And then we started making dye cut doll house kits. I had one house that we started with, I went to a trade show and we sold alot, really got quite a lot of attention. So just about three years later we were doing about $4 million dollars and showing our doll houses all over the world, we had a line of about 18 different doll houses, and we had become far and away the largest manufacturer of when I say Doll Houses, what I really mean is one-inch scaled buildings for miniture collectors. They mostly were for children, one or two of the smaller items were but the greatest majority of our customers were women in their 40’s and 50’s that would assemble them, wallpaper them, electrify them, furnish them, shingle them and we have on our website right now theres a forum with over 20,000 pictures of our houses have been uploaded. A tremendous variety of different techniques of decorating and colouring and it was a real rush, it took place at almost by accident, it was, there was no plan about being a big dolls house manufacturer. It just happened, a friend of mine made a sample, and then we took his drawings and made a sample and then but we did really charge into the opportunity when it became apparent. #00:04:35-0# Neil: Mmm hmmm and how much do your doll houses sell for? #00:04:36-2# Dean Roberts: Anywhere from $15 dollars to somewhere over $300. Its Greenleafdollhouses.com. Anybody can look at the houses as we talk. #00:04:49-3# Neil: So you have still got that business have you? #00:04:53-0# Dean Roberts: Well I sold that business to my son and daughter about 20 years ago or 25 years ago now, but they are still chugging away at it. #00:05:01-5# Neil: So what did you do after you sold the doll house business? #00:05:04-7# Dean Roberts: I took off, I brought a small trailer and I spent several years just travelling around the United States and basically living by myself. I exercised alot, practised a lot of yoga, meditated and wrote, and thats a part of what my book, ‘I’ll fix my head before I’m dead’ is about, its journal entries during that period of time when I was travelling around. #00:05:24-7# Neil: I notice on the cover of your book, you seem to be sat is the Lotus position, is that what its called? I think it is. #00:05:33-3# Dean Roberts: Its called the bow lotus. #00:05:36-8# Neil: Yeh that must of taken a while to get to be able to do that because I don’t think I could do that. #00:05:43-3# Dean Roberts: Yeh I practised yoga pretty much every day for the last 35 years. When I first started I couldn’t even put my hands together behind my back, I was so stiff. I used to bicycle and lift weights and I was in fairly good shape but I was as stiff as a board, and that was part of my physical fitness regime, that was totally missing and I really liked it and I went to yoga retreats and seminars and I really dove into it. And I think from many aspects, its a very important enhancement for life. #00:06:21-5# Neil: What do you enjoy most about what you do now? #00:06:29-1# Dean Roberts: Every day I feel a tremendous sense of gratitude. I’ve worked a long time to get there, when I was in my mid twenties, I was tense and depressed and angry and very overweight and out of shape. And I think that, I came away from that actually, one night I woke up and I realised that I was going to be in an early grave if I didn’t change my ways. And I stopped drinking and stopped smoking and started to study about health, but I think the most rewarding thing about my life is that I’m not beating myself up anymore. I get up and feel grateful for the coffee and grateful for the books that we read together, and for whatever particular activitivity of the day is, it goes smoothly and I have this ongoing sense of gratefulness about having this opportunity of life and having it come out the way it has. #00:07:26-2# Neil: What is it that drives you now? #00:07:30-4# Dean Roberts: I feel a passion to share what I have learned. I think that most people are kind of missing out on the possibility of life. #00:07:37-9# Neil: Yeh ok. And how do you relax when you are not working in your business? #00:07:46-1# Dean Roberts: I don’t really work in the business, we have a health food store now, we brought it about 8 years ago. My wife’s son manages it, and I go there once or twice. I spend alot of my time reading and exercising, and in the summertime being outdoors. Last winter, we have a motorhome so we travelled for about 3 months southwest. I really have no schedule and thats exactly, but I want to develop a schedule, I am really committed to sharing what I have learned, I feel such a sense of gratitude that it is, I wish everybody could feel like that. #00:08:29-9# Neil: And how do you intend to share what you have learned? #00:08:32-4# Dean Roberts: Well a book was the first small step. Then I think these interviews, I would hopefully attract somebody that I could counsel with on a one-to-one basis. And I’ve just joined a toastmasters club, I don’t know if you have ever seen them, they are international, but every two weeks you get an opportunity to make a short public speech. And I am training myself in practising public speaking, and thats one way to certainly reach and influence people. #00:09:03-9# Neil: Yeh I do that, I actually go to toastmasters. So #00:09:06-1# Dean Roberts: Oh you do? great. #00:09:08-7# Neil: Yeh its one of those things you might be able to stand up and talk in front of people, its a skill isn’t it? Its something that takes time to develop. Its more complicated than it seems. #00:09:25-5# Dean Roberts: It is because its a psychological thing as much as a presentation and being prepared and everything else, because so much in life is preparation. And you can get really prepared but if you still don’t have the, if you feel very scared or tense or it can really knock your presentation down. So its getting used to being in front of people. I read somewhere that its like a primal fear of screwing up in public, that it goes back to our tribal days when being estrasized from the tribe meant almost a death-sentence. So there is sense of being and belonging, and being a part of and being accepted is a very basic primal feeling. #00:10:09-3# Neil: I’ve heard it said that people fear speaking in public more than they fear death. I do not know if thats true or not, but thats what I’ve heard. #00:10:20-9# Dean Roberts: yeh I’ve heard that, it certainly is true for some people. #00:10:24-9# Neil: Yeh sure is, so do you have any entrepreneurial role models? Is there anybody #00:10:29-7# Dean Roberts: Many but I think the one. Not exactly an entrepreneurial role model but yes I would say a role model, Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill wrote a book called ‘think and grow rich’ in the 1830’s and 40’s and I had the great good fortune to be given that, at a very early stage in my career. It materially changed my progress and helped me understand the component parts of achieving a particular end, and his life was a role model for what I want to do now. He became a teacher and he influenced millions, 25 million copies of his book been printed in many many different languages and its like a road map. So another model that is not quite entrepreneurial but certainly has had a big effect on my life is Robert de Robe he wrote a book called ‘The master game’ and its been kind of a guide book for me to learn about and take control of my inner game. Which is really we and our outside is a reflection of what we can do, inside what we know and what skill sets we have, and under his influence I became alot more peaceful and alot more capable of being in the present. #00:11:56-7# Neil: Dean, what I would like you to do is, can you cast your mind back to the time before you were an entrepreneur? and what I would like you to do is just tell us a few things, so what difficulties did you have to overcome when you started your business? #00:12:10-7# Dean Roberts: Oh money, we were dirt poor, and when I went to work with my mother and father their gross sales were $18,000 dollars that year. We were poor, my father had dreamed about being in business his whole life and in his fifties he finally got up there with enought to quit his job and start, and it wasn’t going very well, the only reason I wound up there was because my mother really talked him into it. I wasn’t doing much of anything after I got out of the Navy and so I guess she was worried I was going to wind up, I was doing something, I was smoking and drinking and hanging around with my friends, and it did not look good, so under her pressure and my father, I started to work there. But for years I struggled with money and no particular vision for the future. But then when I got Napoleon Hill’s book, ‘think and grow rich’ I read it, and re-read and started to set goals and things started to get better. #00:13:13-5# Neil: So how did you overcome the money problem? Obviously you read the book, what is it you did to actually make things better? #00:13:18-6# Dean Roberts: Work work work, we made sterile dye, so I got more customers and I worked at night and I worked in the morning, and I came in on Sundays and just started to accumulate some money. And I was smart enough I guess not to go into any new lifestyle changes with the extra money, we just let it build up a little bit, and get control and pay off some old debts you know? #00:13:49-1# Neil: So you didn’t play poker or anything then? #00:13:52-5# Dean Roberts: No that started, affluence came before poker. #00:13:56-6# Neil: Ha ha ha and did you have any doubts that delayed you starting the business or that delayed what you were doing there? #00:14:06-1# Dean Roberts: I think that there is always self-doubt, even now, that our biggest challenge is to overcome our fears. I would go to make a sales call, and I can remember standing outside of a factory for fifteen minutes just trying to gather myself up and walk in a talk to the people. #00:14:28-5# Neil: Yeh and then you get in there and find that they are not there, ha ha ha and you think what was that about? #00:14:36-2# Dean Roberts: Or you walk in and they are so happy to see you, they show you around and you leave with a couple of patterns to make a few sample dyes. So I have had it go both ways. #00:14:47-6# Neil: Good and what mistakes did you make that slowed your journey? #00:14:55-3# Dean Roberts: Probably the biggest mistake I made all my life was not studying enough, not realising the breadth and depth of my own ignorance. And to develop skills and knowledge within the sphere of life, but more directly within the sphere of activity that I was functioning in. Read trade magazines, go to trade shows, theres a million things you can do to find out about your business. #00:15:25-5# Neil: Yeh absolutely, I think education is very important and you know I always believe that one of the biggest failings of education, when kids go to school and things is that they don’t tell you why you need to be educated. Which to me seems like a basic thing, so people go to school and they think its finished, its over, I don’t need to educate myself anymore and they don’t realise how important it is to continue it. #00:15:53-0# Dean Roberts: I had a very poor experience with the traditional government education, I failed alot, stayed out of school alot, and finally got thrown out, I had looking back I think that education in today’s world, education is to teach everybody how to read and write and then get them curious to find out what they want to do with their lives, and give them an iphone. You know the whole traditional education system is going to come down like a ton of bricks. #00:16:24-5# Neil: Mmmm maybe, #00:16:26-3# Dean Roberts: Because it teaches people regimentation, do what you are told, stand up when you are told. Learn a whole bunch of crap that you are never gonna use in your life, I mean so much of the things they waste your time on, kids learning and testing, all they gotta know is ‘ask google’ if they want to know if they have any use to know. #00:16:45-6# Neil: Its true and I think theres other things that could be learnt that they don’t teach, thats the other thing. #00:16:51-4# Dean Roberts: How to do 50 push ups in two minutes or something that will really serve you for the rest of your life. #00:16:57-5# Neil: Ha ha ha ha yeh and what are some of the things that you did before you started your business that would be helpful tips to some of the listeners who haven’t yet taken the first step on the entrepreneur way. #00:17:11-7# Dean Roberts: One thing that I did that was really very important and has nothing to do with the business, I joined a kayake and canoe club, actually a friend of mine it had belonged, it wasn’t even a friend of mine actually, it was somebody we used to rent a house from. I went to a couple of meetings, they had meetings and .. time and a swimming pool area, and novices learned how to roll a kayake and it throws me to a whole different group of people. All my friends were idiots like me who had dropped out of school or were working stupid jobs, and they were doctors and lawyers and they were quite a professional class of people. And I really got good at white water kayaking, I used to go on these trips quite often, and that exposure to this whole other world of people, and the proficiency that I gained quite quickly, to that sport. So I was kind of looked up to a little bit, pretty early on because the clubs would sponsor a trip just about every weekend of the year, even at the winter time we would go kayaking down at the local rivers. And it gave me a sense of self-worth, and I can do this, I can do this too you know? I wanted to make a place for myself amongst that group of people. So I really started to pay attention to the business and work alot harder and set goals for myself. Thats right around the same time Napoleon Hill’s book came along. #00:18:42-3# Neil: Ok and can we just move to the entrepreneurial journey itself now Dean? and can you tell me, do you think culture is important from the beginning in a business? #00:18:56-7# Dean Roberts: Oh for sure because people don’t just, as a leader, you are teaching people and showing them how to run the business by everything that you do and the way that you act and the way that you treat people. And the culture of our business was always very colaborative and very from the first employee I had, I treated him more like a partner than an employee. And it comes back to you a hundred times over, make people a part of it, this is not my business, this is an italianistic cosa nostra, this is our thing. And lets make it as much as we can, lets do it as good as we can, and you just get people thinking you know, I come in with ideas and changes, and give them the latitude to make decisions, let em screw up. Theres a story of a founder of IBM, he made a bunch of money and he hired a new president, and almost immediately, the guy made this horrendous mistake, he cost the company a couple of million dollars. And Watson called him into his office and he said, so the guys says, ‘I guess you are gonna fire me’ he says, ‘fire you, I just spent two million dollars on your education why would I fire you?’ #00:20:08-9# Neil: Ha ha ha #00:20:08-9# Dean Roberts: And thats the thing with help, let them make mistakes. Don’t act like your perfect and they are stupid you know. Its probably in many cases and many things, its the other way round. #00:20:19-3# Neil: Absolutely. Knowing what you know now, is there anything that if you had known it when you started your business would have helped you to shortcut the learning curve? #00:20:29-8# Dean Roberts: Yeh relax. relax. Study study study, relax, stop drinking, stop drinking so much anyway. Those three things would have helped alot, and how much does gut feeling help influence your decisions? #00:20:49-4# Neil: Too much even now, probably just the consistent biggest mistake I have made in my whole career is to jump into things quickly. But by the same token, there is always good in everything that you do, some people analyse stuff to death and the opportunity has come and gone before they get out of bed. The upside of being too spontaneous and too operating by your gut is that you make a lot of mistakes. But by the same token, sometimes you jump into something that hits you like a skyrocket. I once got a pattern out of a product called the puzzle postcard, and I just went right into it like insane. In fact just the last few weeks I was throwing away a couple of kids old puzzle postcards that we were not able to sell because the licence expired. I made a bunch of money on that, we got a licence, we got a pattern from the pattern office and a licence from the US postal service and we made millions of these puzzle postcards. And that was almost complete dumb luck because I jumped into it and kept making new samples and trying it. #00:22:00-8# Neil: Have you got an example of where you messed up with your gut feelings or anything that comes to mind? #00:22:03-7# Dean Roberts: Oh we had just a few years ago, I had a property near Cooperstown New York, which is the baseball hall of fame. Its a big thing in this country, so we designed and built within this warehouse, the dollhouse hall of fame. Through six figures and to that idea it was fizzled, the people staying right across the road, baseball people that are interested in baseball have like zero interest in doll houses. And it was just way too fast to, and thank god I can live through it. #00:22:43-4# Neil: Life is made of constant change, whether we like it or not, so many would say that the only constant in life is change, so how do you #00:22:52-0# Dean Roberts: I would say thats correct. #00:22:52-0# Neil: So how do you try to keep up with change? #00:22:56-6# Dean Roberts: Gratitude, gratitude is the answer to everything. You know whether its a positive change or a negative change. Because once again, I go back to Napoleon Hill, he said, ‘every adversity has the seeds within it of an equal or greater advantage, so if you like whats changing, thats great, celebrate it, if you would rather have something else happen, then search through whats going on and figure out whats the blessing? what good can I take from this? what good will come from it? Or what good can I make of it?’ But change is a, you know I’m 76 years old, I’m coming to look the grim reaper right in the face. What could I expect to live, another 20 years? you know. #00:23:44-5# Neil: Maybe more, I heard about someone the other day who was 113 years old in the UK so you have still got a long way to go yet. #00:23:52-0# Dean Roberts: I said 125 in my mind because my father always said he was going to live to be 85 and he didn’t get much past that and he died then and there was absolutely nothing wrong with him, I’m not sure if his expectations killed him more than anything else. #00:24:03-1# Neil: A little thought for you here, you are talking about goals and things, I think you should have an age goal in your mind when you think about it. Why not aim for an age that you want to live to? #00:24:15-0# Dean Roberts: Thats why I say 125. I mean somebody did it, I read a couple, somebody was a 128 one time, that was pretty verified. So I mean I take care of myself, who knows? #00:24:27-2# Neil: So what is your favourite book on entrepreneurialism, business, personal development, leadership or motivation? and can you tell us why you have chosen it? #00:24:37-5# Dean Roberts: Think and grow rich I think is a bed-rock book, I’ve read many many other books, success system that never failed and success through a positive mental attitude. And the work of Tony Robbins has been a tremendous influence on me, he is a very very wise man with a very positive way of presenting his ideas. I’ve listened to, I’ve subscribed to a lot of his tape programmes and read all his books, W C Stone is another one, he is a very articulate speaker. Covey and his seven principles of success. I have got hundreds of books on self-improvement and spiritual considerations. #00:25:25-8# Neil: Yeh well you have certainly given us a good selection there. And everyone, when you have a busy life, listening to audio books is a great way to expand your knowledge in the time that you may be doing other things, such as driving your car or when you are at the gym. We have a special offer for you of a free audio book of your choosing, to choose your free audio book, go to www.freeaudiobookoffer.com. As long as you haven’t already signed up, then you will qualify. Dean, what I would like to do now is, I would like you to throw your mind into the future a little bit here, and talk about a few things, so what one thing would you do with your business if you knew you could not fail? #00:26:08-8# Dean Roberts: I guess I would borrow a whole bunch of money, I got pretty good credit so, I would hire a group of people, a very intense internet educational/email/ blogging and all of the stupid crap that the governments and food companies, and alot of the people of the world are doing every day. #00:26:46-1# Neil: And what skill if you were excellent at it would help you the most to double your business? #00:26:56-5# Dean Roberts: Speaking I think, it would really become a moving teacher of the skills people need to live comfortably. I guess the most important skill everybody needs is to create their experience when things are going good, and then right in the heart of chaos and trouble, to still be calm and peaceful. Robert de Robe said, ‘by skillful means, one can learn to be comfortable even in hell.’ And thats what I would like people, more than anything else to learn is that skill of creating wholeness and compassion and goodwill, no matter whats going on. #00:27:48-4# Neil: And in five years from now, if a well-known business publication was publishing an article on your business, after talking to your customers and suppliers, what would you like it to say? #00:27:59-3# Dean Roberts: This idiot kept learning and trying and after a while his ideas became important to more than his family and friends. #00:28:11-3# Neil: Ok thank you for that. We are now at the part of the show where you share three golden nuggets with us, so Dean what is your favourite quote and how have you applied it? #00:28:25-4# Dean Roberts: A long time ago, I read a poem by Robert Dervis called ‘the cremation of sam magee’ and one of the lines in there goes, ‘a promise made, is a debt unpaid.’ And that was probably 40 years ago, that I read that. I read it again and I read it again, my word is currency. I’m going to live by that, when I tell somebody something, I’m gonna do it. And then if I don’t do it, I am going to say to myself, ‘a promise made is a debt unpaid’ and I’m gonna do it. And I am also going to be careful and this I learned over the years, this wasn’t the first part that came with that, but I became almost pathelogical about doing what I say or standing by my word. And as I grew older, I realised I don’t have to give my word to everybody you know? Be very careful, be judicious, but if you say you are going to do something, write it down and take it to the bank, its that or death. And that is a personal asset, its a piece of capital, that works with you, you know when people are customers or anybody in your life, I got many referrals you know this guy said ‘hey you will take care of this, you will do it.’ and he said, ‘you will do it if you say you will.’ So thats a personal asset that anybody can do that, I mean you don’t need a book, you don’t need a chair, you don’t need a car. Just treat that as sacred. Your word is your word, and another one is from Iron Ranch, shes a fiction writer, she wrote ‘Ella Shrugs’ and ‘we are living’ and a whole bunch of other books. And she said somewhere along the way, that live to the limit of your knowledge, and expand the knowledge to the limit of your life. I spend an hour /an hour and a half every morning reading a bunch of different books and writing because the more I learn, the more I realise that the only thing I know is that they don’t know. And I will never know, but I can always know more, absolutely awesome that, and I will tell you what I mentioned before was Napoleon Hill’s every adversity has within it the seeds of equal or greater advantage. #00:30:56-4# Neil: Yeh thanks for that, and do you have any favourite online resources that you would like to share that would be useful to us? #00:31:09-9# Dean Roberts: Well I have a blog at its boneyardexpress.blogspot.com and I really like Tim Ferris’s podcasts and Dave Asprey’s podcasts, and Lewis Houth are all great assets because you mentioned before about listening to audio books, when you are doing things for driving, and I have got in the habit of having these podcasts on all the time because the people I interview on the cutting edge of everything, whether its health or new thoughts about going to space he had Elon Musk on or was interviewed about his private enterprise space company. I meant they are a tremendous asset and this one too, I am looking forward to listening to your interviews. #00:32:06-0# Neil: Thank you, well thats great, so what is your best advice to other entrepreneurs? #00:32:17-6# Dean Roberts: To get up in the morning, and block out an hour, hour and a half, every single morning. Thats your time and study, exercise, meditate, and write. Journaling is a tremendous way of self-discovery and making yourself accountable, I am talking about giving my word to other people, and I have done that pretty consistently throughout most of my adult life, but I wimp out on committments I make to myself, I mean I am pretty disciplined about exercise and diet and getting enough rest and drinking enough water, and I live pretty well. But I still let myself get out of committments that I make and thats in writing and journaling. And another thing, its very amusing too, I go back and I read journals that I wrote in the 80’s and 70’s and I get a lot of laughs, I am like ‘you complete moron’ the things I did, the way I looked at things, but it was pretty consistently followed the same flow, a review of the day before, and to set out a fairly clear purpose to the day ahead. And the purpose to the day ahead, 95% of the time, stay relaxed, stay calm, don’t get depressed, don’t get angry, all this is going to pass. Just do your best in whatever you do, but reading and writing over the years, re-inforced that and after a while, started to work. #00:33:44-6# Neil: Someone said to me the other day, note-takers are history makers, I thought I like that. #00:33:48-2# Dean Roberts: Good line. Very good line, I had better use that one. Note takers are history makers. Very catchy, thats a good title for a book. #00:34:00-4# Neil: Ha ha ha its not my line but anyway. I don’t know where it came from, everyone if you did not manage to get a note of Dean’s favourite resources or his favourite books, you can find the links on Dean’s show notes page just go to theentrepreneurway.com and search for Dean or Dean Roberts in the search box. Dean is there anything else you would like to add about your business? #00:34:26-4# Dean Roberts: Well my business primarily right now is building the resources within myself to step out into the world on a larger stage, so I think that it applies to anything that you are doing, block out that time every morning, study, exercise, you can’t I don’t think you can really be 100% optimised what the possibilities of any business or any life without really a high level of physical fitness and continual curiousity and education. #00:34:58-7# Neil: Ok thank you for that. #00:35:02-1# Dean Roberts: Thats the ticket to a full life, #00:35:05-0# Neil: Dean its been an absolute honour having you on the show, you have really given us some great things to think about and some insight into being an entrepreneur. And you have inspired us all, so thank you very much for coming on the show. #00:35:20-3# Dean Roberts: Thanks for having me, your questions were really good. #00:35:21-3# Neil: You are welcome. Thank you.Transcript of Dean Roberts's Podcast
Your teaching people and showing them how to run the business by everything that you do and the way you act and the way treat people, and the culture of our business was always very colaborative and very from the very first employee I had, I treated him more like a partner than an employee. And it comes back to you a 100 times over.
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