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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 Kroc

When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.
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Deep Growth Yourself
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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Book Boredom Boy Imagination Kind Myself Reading Thinking Time
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
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Luck Yourself
In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
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Business Team Work Yourself
I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
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Believe Happiness Man Myself Problem Responsibility
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
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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Difficult Myself Perfection
There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
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Business Food Future Sports
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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Customer Job Love Money Success Work Yourself
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
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
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
Luck is a dividend of sweat.
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Hard Work Luck One Liner
In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.
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Executive Experience Mistake Myself
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
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Art Customer Let Go Meaning
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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Absence Advantage Important Success
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
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
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Generosity Help Kindness Myself Success
I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.
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Appearance Machine Myself Opportunity
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
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
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
I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
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Life Myself Stupidity Suffering
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
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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Action Connection Dreams Energy Myself Wasted Time
No one of us is more important than the rest of us.
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Important Priority Team Work

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