Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 27 Ray Kroc quotes that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Ray Kroc 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
Look sharp and act sharp. The first thing you have to sell is yourself. When you do that, it will be easy to sell paper cups.
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
Cynics say everything has its price. I say poppycock! There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.
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
I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I’d imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Work is the meat in the hamburger of life. There is an old saying that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I never believed it because, for me, work was play.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
The only thing I really enjoyed about school was debating. Here was an activity I could get my teeth into—figuratively, of course—but I would not have hesitated to bite a debate opponent if it would have advanced my argument. I loved being the center of attention, persuading the audience that my side was right.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
I’ve always dealt fairly in business, even when I believed someone was trying to take advantage of me. That’s one reason I have had to grind away incessantly to achieve success. In some ways I guess I’m naive.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
I always take a man at his word unless he’s given me a reason not to, and I’ve worked out many a satisfactory deal on the strength of a handshake. On the other hand, I’ve been taken to the cleaners often enough to make me a certified cynic. But I’m just too naturally cheerful to play that role for long.
from Grinding It Out book by 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.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Some people are bachelors by nature. I am not. I guess I need to be married to feel complete.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
I always say exactly what I think; it’s a trait that’s gotten me in trouble plenty of times, but I never have problems getting to sleep at night with a guilty conscience. That’s why I could never be a politician.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
There is a cross you must bear if you intend to be head of a big corporation: you lose a lot of your friends on the way up. It’s lonely on top.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
People have sometimes accused me of being a hungry tiger for money. That’s not true. I’ve never done anything for the sake of money alone.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
I believe that if two executives think the same, one of them is superfluous.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Our colleges are crowded with young people who are learning a lot about liberal arts and little about earning a living. There are too many baccalaureates and too few butchers.
from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc