I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
RAY KROCI don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.
More Ray Kroc Quotes
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If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
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If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
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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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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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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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If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine … and grabbed it.
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The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
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If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
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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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When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
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I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.
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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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