Ray Kroc Quotes
- The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
- The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
- It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
- Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
- We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
- As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
- 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…
- All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
- 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…
- 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.
- Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
- I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.
- 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.
- I put the hamburger on the assembly line.
- Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
- Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
- None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
- There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.
- 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…
- If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.