Ray Kroc Quotes Page 2

“The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.”

“The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.”

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“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.”

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

“There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.”

“To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.”

“We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.”

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

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

“When you're green you grow and when you're ripe you rot.”

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

“You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.”

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

“You're only as good as the people you hire.”

“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.”

“I put the hamburger on the assembly line.”

“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.”

“In business for yourself, but not by yourself.”

“There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.”