Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert "Ray" Krocwas an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime. He owned the San Diego Padres baseball team from 1974 until his death in 1984...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 October 1902
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
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.
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
I put the hamburger on the assembly line.
There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.
As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.
I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.
To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.
There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.