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If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.

Ray Kroc

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
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Adversity Hustle Strength Yourself
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
Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.
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Achievement Happiness Joy Result
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
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
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Act Bold Calculation Company Inspirational Risk Thinking
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
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
Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
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Business Ourselves Quality Repeat Reputation Store
I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.
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Appearance Machine Myself Opportunity
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
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
That’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.
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Business Customer Game Lose Name See
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
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
In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
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Business Team Work Yourself
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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Beginning Big Burn City War

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.

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