Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.
RAY KROCThat’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
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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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Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.
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We need god to prosper those without him will not.
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I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
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That’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.
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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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If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
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The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
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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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Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
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Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
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The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world.
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The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.
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There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.
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The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.
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If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
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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 was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
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You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.
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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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I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn’t long before I set up a lemonade stand.
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Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
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We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
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