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

Ray Kroc

I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
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Life Myself Stupidity Suffering
You’re only as good as the people you hire.
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Business Goodness Yourself
We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.
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Community Fulfill Generosity Obligation
We need god to prosper those without him will not.
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Faith God Himself Need Prosperity Religious
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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Myself People Result Work Zeal
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
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Important Place Right Success Time
If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
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Cleaning Experience Time Yourself
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
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.
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Accomplishment Happiness Pride Risk Walk
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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Easy Important Poor Principle Rich
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
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.
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Action Connection Dreams Energy Myself Wasted Time
Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
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Business Ourselves Quality Repeat Reputation Store
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Luck Yourself
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
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Goodness Inspirational Team Work
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
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Achievement Floor Walk

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