If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
RAY KROCCustomers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
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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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To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
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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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I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
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It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.
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Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.
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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.
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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.
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You’re only as good as the people you hire.
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If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
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I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
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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 suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
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