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• 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.

  Ray Kroc

  Book, Boys, Thinking

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.

  Ray Kroc

  Dollars, Firsts, Ifs

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• I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.

  Ray Kroc

  Dream, Long, Energy

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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.

  Ray Kroc

  Pride, Risk, Special

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• As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

  Ray Kroc

  Long, Growing, Green

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.10, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

  Ray Kroc

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.

  Ray Kroc

  Clean, Ifs

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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.

  Ray Kroc

  Dog, Competition, Cooking

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• Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

  Ray Kroc

  Restaurants, Customers

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.114, St. Martin's Griffin

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• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  Ray Kroc

  Important, Guarantees, Absence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.

  Ray Kroc

  Mcdonalds, People, Watches

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.78, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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  Mcdonalds, Perfection, Achieve

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.65, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

  Ray Kroc

  Baseball, Food, Hamburgers

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• If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

  Ray Kroc

  Time, Clean, Ifs

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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.

  Ray Kroc

  Ocean, Thinking, Bridges

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.73, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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  Success, Business, Mcdonalds

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

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  Believe, Thinking, Talking

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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.

  Ray Kroc

  Butterfly, Men, Mcdonalds

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• I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

  Ray Kroc

  Business, Believe, Mcdonalds

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.98, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

  Ray Kroc

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Executives

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• I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine ... and grabbed it.

  Ray Kroc

  Opportunity, Saws, Six

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• I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

  Ray Kroc

  Stupid, Suffering

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• I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

  Ray Kroc

  Thinking, Typewriters, Rooms

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.84, St. Martin's Griffin

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