I suffer with you. I’ve never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
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.
To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.
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.
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.
The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.
I put the hamburger on the assembly line.
I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry.
I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
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.
Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.
There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.
When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
The first dollar is the most you will get if you don’t love what you are doing.
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.