Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.
RAY KROCSpeaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.
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Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
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That’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.
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I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.
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No one of us is more important than the rest of us.
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There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
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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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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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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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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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The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
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To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
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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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You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
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Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.
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