“I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!”

The first dollar is the most you will get if you don’t love what you are doing.

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me.

I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

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

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.

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.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

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

When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I’m unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what’s happening in your own world.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

I’ve created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.