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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Ray Kroc

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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Bad Build Cost Time Wait
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
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Idiot Knowledge Leadership Old War Weakness
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
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Age Growth Yourself
That’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.
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Business Customer Game Lose Name See
I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.
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Big Preparation Room Thinking Writing Yourself
There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work Money Myself Oneself Price Win
There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.
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Accomplishment Dedication Determination Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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Creativity Job Myself Word Work
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
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Absence Advantage Important Success
In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Beginning Brother City Endurance God Greatness
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
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Avoid Customer Restaurant
There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
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Business Food Future Sports
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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Book Boredom Boy Imagination Kind Myself Reading Thinking Time
If you do it first class and you don’t compromise values, and you don’t compromise quality, and you don’t compromise service, and you don’t compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up.
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Class Competition Compromise Quality Service Value Yourself
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
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Customer Day Food Love People Success Thrive
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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Man Respect Sales Talk Way

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