Ray Kroc Quotes

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As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

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No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

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I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

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When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

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Where there is no risk there can be no pride in achievement and consequently no happiness.

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I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.

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I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

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There's almost nothing you can't accomplish if you set your mind to it.

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Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.

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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.

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I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

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Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

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There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

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Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

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Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

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I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.

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I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

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The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

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You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

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It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

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If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

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Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

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