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In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.

Ray Kroc

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
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Cleaning Time Yourself
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
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Avoid Customer Restaurant
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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Class Competition Compromise Quality Service Value Yourself
Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.
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Business Customer Priority Success
Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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Creativity Job Myself Word Work
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
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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Business Priority Serious
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
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Leadership Quality Reflection Standard
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
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
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Generosity Help Kindness Myself Success
It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.
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Easy Important Poor Principle Rich
I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.
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Big Preparation Room Thinking Writing Yourself
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
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
Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
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Adversity Hustle Strength 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
In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.
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Executive Experience Mistake Myself
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Money Myself Pride
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
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
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Achievement Floor Walk
From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.
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Calm Dance Morning
I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
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Fame Myself Popular Right Success Time
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
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Goodness Inspirational Team Work
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.
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Imagination See Unique World
Luck is a dividend of sweat.
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Hard Work Luck One Liner
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Luck Yourself
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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Business Ourselves Quality Repeat Reputation Store

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