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Ray Kroc Quote: “I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.”

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

Ray Kroc Quote: “We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.”

52. “We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.”

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

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

Ray Kroc Quote: “We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.”

54. “We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.”

55. “In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “I believe that if you think small, you’ll stay small. Getting.”

56. “I believe that if you think small, you’ll stay small. Getting.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.”

58. “I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.”

59. “There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!”

60. “I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!”

Ray Kroc Quote: “I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.”

61. “I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.”

62. “Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

63. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. – Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.”

64. “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. – Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “I refused to worry about more than one thing at a time, and I would not let useless fretting about a problem, no matter how important, keep me from sleeping. This is easier said than done.”

65. “I refused to worry about more than one thing at a time, and I would not let useless fretting about a problem, no matter how important, keep me from sleeping. This is easier said than done.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “A little bit of luck helps, yes, but the key element, which too many in our affluent society have forgotten, is still hard work – grinding it out. Ray.”

66. “A little bit of luck helps, yes, but the key element, which too many in our affluent society have forgotten, is still hard work – grinding it out. Ray.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “I had left Florida in the nick of time, it turned out. The business decline that began when the real estate boom collapsed caught up with the nightclubs soon after I left. The Silent Night closed its gates for good. Palm Island popped into the news once in a while as time went by. Al Capone built a home there. Then Lou Walters, father of TV’s Barbara Walters, opened the Latin Quarter. But it was to be a long time before I saw Florida again.”

67. “I had left Florida in the nick of time, it turned out. The business decline that began when the real estate boom collapsed caught up with the nightclubs soon after I left. The Silent Night closed its gates for good. Palm Island popped into the news once in a while as time went by. Al Capone built a home there. Then Lou Walters, father of TV’s Barbara Walters, opened the Latin Quarter. But it was to be a long time before I saw Florida again.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “I’ve always dealt fairly in business, even when I believed someone was trying to take advantage of me. That’s one reason I have had to grind away incessantly to achieve success. In some ways I guess I’m naive. I always take a man at his word unless he’s given me a reason not to, and I’ve worked out many a satisfactory deal on the strength of a handshake. On the other hand, I’ve been taken to the cleaners often enough to make me a certified cynic.”

68. “I’ve always dealt fairly in business, even when I believed someone was trying to take advantage of me. That’s one reason I have had to grind away incessantly to achieve success. In some ways I guess I’m naive. I always take a man at his word unless he’s given me a reason not to, and I’ve worked out many a satisfactory deal on the strength of a handshake. On the other hand, I’ve been taken to the cleaners often enough to make me a certified cynic.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “One night the revenue agents outmaneuvered the Palm Island security men and we all wound up in jail. I was mortified. My parents would disown me if they found out I had been put in jail with a bunch of common violators of the prohibition law. We were only there three hours, but it was one of the most uncomfortable 180-minute periods of my life. That.”

69. “One night the revenue agents outmaneuvered the Palm Island security men and we all wound up in jail. I was mortified. My parents would disown me if they found out I had been put in jail with a bunch of common violators of the prohibition law. We were only there three hours, but it was one of the most uncomfortable 180-minute periods of my life. That.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well. We demonstrated this emphasis on details, and saw it pay off, in our approach to hamburger patties.”

70. “You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well. We demonstrated this emphasis on details, and saw it pay off, in our approach to hamburger patties.”

Ray Kroc Quote: “When I flew back to Chicago that fateful day in 1954, I had a freshly signed contract with the McDonald brothers in my briefcase. I was a battle-scarred veteran of the business wars, but I was still eager to go into action. 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 campaigns. But I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.”

71. “When I flew back to Chicago that fateful day in 1954, I had a freshly signed contract with the McDonald brothers in my briefcase. I was a battle-scarred veteran of the business wars, but I was still eager to go into action. 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 campaigns. But I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.”

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