I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.
RAY KROCOur aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
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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.
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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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Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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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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I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.
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You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
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Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.
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If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
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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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The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
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To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.
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Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
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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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When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
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