Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 13 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Grinding It Out Quotes
There is a common fallacy that money will solve problems. It won’t. Money creates problems, and the more you have, the bigger the problems, not the least of which is how to spend it wisely.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
It is impossible to grant someone happiness. The best you can do, as the Declaration of Independence put it, is to give him the freedom to pursue happiness. Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct of achievement.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
As long as you’re green you’re growing, as soon as you’re ripe you start to rot.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
You have to take risks. I don’t mean to be a daredevil, that’s crazy. But you have to take risks, and in some cases you must go for broke. If you believe in something, you’ve got to be in it to the ends of your toes.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
An astute judgment can seem arbitrary to everyone but the man who makes it.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team, it makes the most of every crew member’s talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
People have marveled 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.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
My way of fighting the competition is the positive approach. Stress your own strengths, emphasize quality, service, cleanliness, and value, and the competition will wear itself out trying to keep up. I’ve seen it happen many times.
from Grinding It Out book by 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.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Business is not like painting a picture. You can’t put a final brush stroke on it and then hang it on the wall and admire it.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc