If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Sin, Business, Risk
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Business
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.
—Ray Kroc
It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Principles
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Luck
Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Creativity
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 curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on … the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly’s wing?
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Work, Talents, Abilities
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Money
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Growth
When you’re green you’re growing, and when you’re ripe you start to rot.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Inner-child
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Education, Colleges, Universities
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
—Ray Kroc
Topics: Quality
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