In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
RAY KROCCreativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.
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No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.
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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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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.
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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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If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
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To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.
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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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I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
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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.
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The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
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There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.
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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.
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If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
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