“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.”

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

The first dollar is the most you will get if you don’t love what you are doing.

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Speaking 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.

I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.

Visions of McDonald’s restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

One day, we should have a book of clouds in action.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Some people, in order to discover God, read books.