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

Ray Kroc

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
If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.
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Cleaning Myself Ocean Quality Repeat Service Thinking Time Value Word
In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.
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Executive Experience Mistake Myself
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
Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.
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Achievement Happiness Joy Result
I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.
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Appearance Machine Myself Opportunity
In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
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Business Team Work Yourself
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
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
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Idiot Knowledge Leadership Old War Weakness
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.
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Beautiful Food Kind Mindset
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
Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
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Adversity Hustle Strength Yourself
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
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Achievement Floor Walk
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 was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
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Fame Myself Popular Right Success Time
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
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Important Place Right Success Time
Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.
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Discover Kind Man
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
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Goodness Inspirational Team Work
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
You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.
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Business Expectation Fundamental Perfection Performance 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
If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
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Cleaning Time Yourself
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
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
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
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Leadership Quality Reflection Standard
The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!
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Action Key Place Recognition Right Success

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

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