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If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
Ray Kroc
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Ray Kroc
Age: 81 †
Born: 1902
Born: October 5
Died: 1984
Died: January 14
Businessman
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Restaurateur
Sales Representative
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Oak Park
Illinois
Raymond Albert Kroc
Raymond Albert Ray Kroc
Ray A. Kroc
Raymond A. Kroc
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I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.
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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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You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.
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When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
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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.
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It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.
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McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.
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There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.
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No one of us is more important than the rest of us.
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We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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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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As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
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