Ray Kroc

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

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

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

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.

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

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

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

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

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.

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