Quote

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Ray Kroc

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ray Kroc
Age: 81 †
Born: 1902
Born: October 5
Died: 1984
Died: January 14
Businessman
Businessperson
Restaurateur
Sales Representative
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Raymond Albert Kroc
Raymond Albert Ray Kroc
Ray A. Kroc
Raymond A. Kroc
Consulting
Traveling
Maps
Road
Learn
World

More quotes by Ray Kroc

Image
The organization cannot trust the individual the individual must trust the organization.
Ray Kroc
Image
I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.
Ray Kroc
Image
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc
Image
I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine ... and grabbed it.
Ray Kroc
Image
Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
Ray Kroc
Image
If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
Ray Kroc
Image
When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?
Ray Kroc
Image
No one of us is more important than the rest of us.
Ray Kroc
Image
I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.
Ray Kroc
Image
I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.
Ray Kroc
Image
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
Ray Kroc
Image
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc
Image
You're only as good as the people you hire.
Ray Kroc
Image
There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
Ray Kroc
Image
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
Ray Kroc
Image
We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.
Ray Kroc
Image
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.
Ray Kroc
Image
I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
Ray Kroc
Image
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
Ray Kroc
Image
I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.
Ray Kroc