Quotes by Ray Kroc

• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
• You're only as good as the people you hire.
• When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
• We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
• We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
• 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.
• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
• None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
• Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
• If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
• 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.
• Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
• As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
• All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
• Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
• Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
• Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you work, the luckier you get.
• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom, just be careful not to use a trampoline!
• Success is like a snowball: it takes momentum to build, but once it gets rolling, watch out, because you're in for a OutfaitEOF.