Ray Kroc famous quotes

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
-- Ray Kroc

#Business #Hamburgers

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
-- Ray Kroc

#Inspirational #Motivational #Leadership

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.
-- Ray Kroc

#Girl #Mcdonalds #Order

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.
-- Ray Kroc

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
-- Ray Kroc

#Inspirational #Basketball #Business

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
-- Ray Kroc

#Helping Others #Succeed #Helping

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
-- Ray Kroc

#Green #Growing #Rotting

If you do it first class and you don't compromise values, and you don't compromise quality, and you don't compromise service, and you don't compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up.
-- Ray Kroc

#Class #Play #Quality

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

#Inspiring #Success #Motivation

None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
-- Ray Kroc

If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.
-- Ray Kroc

#Ocean #Thinking #Bridges

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
-- Ray Kroc

#Success #Time #Congratulations

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.
-- Ray Kroc

#Pride #Achievement #Risk

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun,
-- Ray Kroc

#Mind #Buns #Hamburgers

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

#Years #Optimism #Would Be

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself
-- Ray Kroc

#Care #Looks #Take Care

You're only as good as the people you hire.
-- Ray Kroc

#Leadership #People #Classroom

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
-- Ray Kroc

#Success #Business #People

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
-- Ray Kroc

#Business #Risk #Hell

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
-- Ray Kroc

#Art #Educational #Definitions

Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
-- Ray Kroc

#Creativity #Tuesday

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.
-- Ray Kroc

#Games #Names #Sight

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.
-- Ray Kroc

#Believe #Impossible #Failing

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.
-- Ray Kroc

#Giving #Community #Obligation

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.
-- Ray Kroc

#Dog #Talking #Water

No one of us is more important than the rest of us.
-- Ray Kroc

#Important

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.
-- Ray Kroc

#Successful #Firsts #Different

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.
-- Ray Kroc

#Butterfly #Men #Mcdonalds

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 the best was ahead of me.
-- Ray Kroc

#Years #Optimism #Campaigns

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

#Long #Green #Growing

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
-- Ray Kroc

#Focus #Quality #Reputation

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
-- Ray Kroc

#Adversity #Grind

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
-- Ray Kroc

#Baseball #Food #Hamburgers

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
-- Ray Kroc

#Happiness #Men #Problem

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
-- Ray Kroc

#Stupid #Suffering

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
-- Ray Kroc

#Achievement #Walks #Flats

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.
-- Ray Kroc

#Mind #Accomplish

I put the hamburger on the assembly line.
-- Ray Kroc

#Lines #Hamburgers #Assembly Line

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
-- Ray Kroc

#Mcdonalds #Perfection #Achieve

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
-- Ray Kroc

#Important #Poverty #Principles

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
-- Ray Kroc

#Water #Mouths #Sticks

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.
-- Ray Kroc

#Organization #Individual

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean....
-- Ray Kroc

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
-- Ray Kroc

#Night #Years #Long

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.
-- Ray Kroc

#Business #Believe #Mcdonalds

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
-- Ray Kroc

#Mean #Pride #Accomplishment

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
-- Ray Kroc

#Important #Guarantees #Absence

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
-- Ray Kroc

#Motivational #Growing Up #Green

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

#Pride #Entrepreneur #Inspire

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.
-- Ray Kroc

This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry.
-- Ray Kroc

#Dog #Competition #Ems

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.
-- Ray Kroc

#Dream #Long #Example