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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.” quote by Ray Kroc — Download Open image

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

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“I was about to lose one of my biggest accounts, Walgreens, the people I had created a tremendous amount of business for and to whom I was selling five million cups a year. Fred Stoll told me in strictest confidence that a former Walgreen executive who had a lot of pull in the top offices of the company had gone…

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“One time a McDonald’s operator came to me with the idea he’d dreamed up to cut costs by producing a doughnut-shaped patty. His notion was to plug the hole with condiments, and cover it with a pickle so the customer wouldn’t notice the hole. I told him we wanted to feed our customers, not fleece them, but I couldn’t suppress…

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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There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

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