Ray Kroc Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.”
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“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
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“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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“If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.”
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“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
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“The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.”
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“Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?”
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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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“None of Us is as Good as All of Us.”
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“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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“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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“Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.”
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“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun,”
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“I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.”
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“Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself”
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“We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.”
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“If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”
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“The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.”
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“Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.”
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“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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“If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.”
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“We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.”
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“If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.”
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“No one of us is more important than the rest of us.”
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“To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.”
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“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.”
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“I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.”
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“As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.”
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