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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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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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Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.
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It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
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You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.
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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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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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Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
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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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There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Where there is no risk there can be no pride in achievement and consequently no happiness.
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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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I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
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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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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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I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.
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Born:
October 5, 1902
Died:
January 14, 1984
(aged 81)
Bio:
Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world.
Ray Kroc on Wikipedia
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