“I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.”

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.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

That’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

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.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.

In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.

If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.

American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.

We still don’t understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film – something like ‘Titanic’.

I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.