70+ Ray Kroc Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
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Business Team Work Yourself
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
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Achievement Floor Walk
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
When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Exhausted Sun Threat Tired
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Luck Yourself
You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
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Learning Map Road Travel World Yourself
Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.
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Business Customer Priority Success
In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.
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Executive Experience Mistake Myself
If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
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Competition Drown Myself Water
The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.
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Organization Person Trust
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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Difficult Myself Perfection
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
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
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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Fire Greatness Heaven Kind Man Rain See Time Trouble Weapon
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
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
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
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
You’re only as good as the people you hire.
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Business Goodness Yourself
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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Cleaning Myself Ocean Quality Repeat Service Thinking Time Value Word
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
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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Business Priority Serious
There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
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Business Food Future Sports
Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.
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Death Myself Sunrise
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
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Avoid Customer Restaurant
If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
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Business Inspirational Leaving Risk Yourself
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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Imagination See Unique World

Ray Kroc Quotes

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