“There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.”

No one of us is more important than the rest of us.

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

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.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Nobody but you is responsible for your life.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. It’s simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it.