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

Ray Kroc

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.
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Accomplishment Happiness Pride Risk Walk
Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
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Adversity Hustle Strength Yourself
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Beginning Big Burn City War
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
We need god to prosper those without him will not.
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Faith God Himself Need Prosperity Religious
I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
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Life Myself Stupidity Suffering
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
If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.
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Believe Failure Hard Impossible Inspirational Motivational Yourself
In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
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Business Team Work Yourself
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
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
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
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
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Generosity Help Kindness Myself Success
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 do it first class and you don’t compromise values, and you don’t compromise quality, and you don’t compromise service, and you don’t compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up.
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Class Competition Compromise Quality Service Value Yourself
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.
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Beautiful Food Kind Mindset
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
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
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Money Myself Pride
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
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
I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.
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Appearance Machine Myself Opportunity
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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Business Priority Serious
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
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Act Bold Calculation Company Inspirational Risk Thinking
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
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
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

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