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If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

Ray Kroc

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me.
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Animal Competition Dog Fast Food Industry Myself Talk
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
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Customer Day Food Love People Success Thrive
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
Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.
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Business Customer Priority Success
I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.
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Appearance Machine Myself Opportunity
Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.
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Achievement Happiness Joy Result
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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Creation Flame Future Intellectual Understand
In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Beginning Brother City Endurance God Greatness
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
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
Luck is a dividend of sweat.
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Hard Work Luck One Liner
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
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
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Leadership Quality Reflection Standard
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
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Avoid Customer Restaurant
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

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

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