When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.
RAY KROCSpeaking 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.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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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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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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We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
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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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Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.
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After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen.
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The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
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There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
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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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Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
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If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
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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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Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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