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.
RAY KROCPerfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
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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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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.
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It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
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The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
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I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.
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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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If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
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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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You’re only as good as the people you hire.
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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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None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
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We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.
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Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
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If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.
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There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.
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When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.
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To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.
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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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Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
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The first dollar is the most you will get if you don’t love what you are doing.
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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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Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
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