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Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Ray Kroc

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
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Believe Happiness Man Myself Problem Responsibility
If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
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Cleaning Experience Time Yourself
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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Absence Advantage Important Success
Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.
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Death Myself Sunrise
If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
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Competition Drown Myself Water
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
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Goodness Inspirational Team Work
I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
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Believe Family God Myself Order Reverse
If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.
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Believe Failure Hard Impossible Inspirational Motivational Yourself
McDonald’s is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl’s face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.
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Business Face Girl Image People Smile
The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.
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Organization Person Trust
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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Myself People Result Work Zeal
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.
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Ability Ego Entrepreneur Inspirational Leadership Pride Yourself
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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Fire Greatness Heaven Kind Man Rain See Time Trouble Weapon
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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Man Respect Sales Talk Way
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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Believe Country Head International Talk Thinking Vision World
I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
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Life Myself Stupidity Suffering
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
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Avoid Customer Restaurant
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
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Art Customer Let Go Meaning
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.
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Accomplishment Happiness Pride Risk Walk
You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
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Learning Map Road Travel World Yourself
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Money Myself Pride
There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work Money Myself Oneself Price Win
There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.
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Accomplishment Dedication Determination Inspirational Mindset Yourself
When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?
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Bad Build Cost Time Wait
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Beginning Big Burn City War
When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.
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Deep Growth Yourself
You’re only as good as the people you hire.
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Business Goodness Yourself

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