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I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Ray Kroc

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
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Luck Yourself
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
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
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Age Growth Yourself
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 take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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Business Priority Serious
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
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Generosity Help Kindness Myself Success
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
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Act Bold Calculation Company Inspirational Risk Thinking
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
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
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
If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
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Cleaning Time Yourself
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
The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.
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Organization Person Trust
Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.
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Business Customer Priority Success
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

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