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“When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?” quote by Ray Kroc — Download Open image

“When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?”

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

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“The best part of it for me personally was that every time I saw a new Walgreen’s store going up it meant new business. This sort of multiplication was clearly the way to go. I spent less and less time chasing pushcart vendors around the West Side and more time cultivating large accounts where big turnover would automatically winch in…

Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

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“We started Franchise Realty Corporation with $1,000 paid-in capital, and Harry parlayed that cash investment into something like $170 million worth of real estate. His idea, simply put, was that we would induce a property owner to lease us his land on a subordinated basis. That is, he would take back a second mortgage so that we could go to…

“One man's famine makes another man's feast.”

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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun,

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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…

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth

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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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