Best Ray Kroc Quotes And Advice

 

Raymond Albert “Beam” Kroc was an American fast-food tycoon. He joined the California organization McDonald’s in 1954 after the McDonald siblings had diversified 6 areas out from their unique 1940 task in San Bernardino. This set up for national development with the assistance of Kroc, in the end prompting a worldwide establishment, making it the best cheap food partnership on the planet. Kroc was incorporated into Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime. He possessed the San Diego Padres baseball crew from 1974 until his demise in 1984.

Here are some of the Best Ray Kroc Quotes

“The first dollar is the most you will get if you don’t love what you are doing.” – Ray Kroc

“Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.” – Ray Kroc

“I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems. It is a simple philosophy.” – Ray Kroc

“It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.” – Ray Kroc

 

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

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

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

“Look after the customers and the business will take care of itself.” – Ray Kroc

 

“You’re only as good as the people you hire.” – Ray Kroc

“All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.” – Ray Kroc

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

“I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.” – Ray Kroc

 

“None of Us is as Good as All of Us.” – Ray Kroc

“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

“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

“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

 

“If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” – Ray Kroc

“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

“If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.” – Ray Kroc

“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

 

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

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

 

 

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“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

“The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!” – Ray Kroc

 

“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” – Ray Kroc

“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

“In business for yourself, but not by yourself.” – Ray Kroc

“You’ll learn more about a road by travelling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.” – Ray Kroc

 

“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

“Competition can try to steal my plans and copy my style. But they can’t read my mind; so I’ll leave them a mile and a half behind.” – Ray Kroc

“People have marvelled at the fact that I didn’t start McDonald’s until I was fifty-two years old and then I became a success overnight. But I was just like a lot of show business personalities who work away quietly at their craft for years, and then, suddenly, they get the right break and make it big. I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night.” – Ray Kroc

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

 

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

“It is impossible to grant someone happiness. The best you can do… is to give him the freedom to pursue happiness. Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a by-product – a by-product of achievement.” – Ray Kroc

“A man must take advantage of any opportunity that comes along…” – Ray Kroc

“No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.” – Ray Kroc

 

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

“If you believe in something, you’ve got to be in it to the ends of your toes.” – Ray Kroc

“Taking reasonable risks is part of the challenge. It’s fun.” – Ray Kroc

“There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.” – Ray Kroc

 

“I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it. If you doubt his ability, you shouldn’t have hired him in the first place.” – Ray Kroc

“Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.” – Ray Kroc

“My way of fighting competition is a positive approach. Stress your own strengths, emphasize quality, service, cleanliness and value, and the competition will wear itself out trying to keep up.” – Ray Kroc

“I became a real entrepreneur, crazy enough to take the risk of losing everything.” – Ray Kroc

 

 

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