Quotes from Ray Kroc

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

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

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.

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.

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

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

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

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

The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.

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

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

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 curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on ... the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?

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

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

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

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

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

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

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

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

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.