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As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

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Ray Kroc
Age: 81 †
Born: 1902
Born: October 5
Died: 1984
Died: January 14
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Illinois
Raymond Albert Kroc
Raymond Albert Ray Kroc
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We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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No one of us is more important than the rest of us.
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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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I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.
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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?
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If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.
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The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.
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I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
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If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.
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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 carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.
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Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.
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The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!
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Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.
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