“We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.”

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

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

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

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 is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

I don’t think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

You will go most safely by the middle way.