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Ray Kroc Biography

Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, just a few months after the McDonald brothers had branched out from their original 1940 operation in San Bernardino, with Kroc turning the chain into a nationwide and eventually global franchise, making it the most successful fast food corporation in the world. Controversially, Kroc would present himself as the founder of McDonald's during his later life. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime. He owned the San Diego Padres baseball team from 1974 until his death in 1984.

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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.

Ability, Ego, Entrepreneur, Follow, Pride

I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

Clattering, Rooms, Teletype, Thinking, Typewriters

I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine. . . and grabbed it.

Machines, Opportunity, Saw, Ugly

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Business, Commitment, Hamburger, Seriously, Success

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

Back, Community, Gives, Giving, Obligation

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

Motivational, Commitment, Reality, Principles, Thing, Poor

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Hose, Mouths, Stick, Sticks, Turn, Water

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

Business

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

Ballplaying, Life, Stupid, Suffer, Suffering

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

Believe, Business, Mcdonalds, Office, Order, Reversed

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

Happiness, Men, Problem, Believed, Responsible, Problems

The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

Bothered, Brother, Brothers, Demands, Ideas, Mcdonalds

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Successful, Different, Firsts, Daring

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

Avoid, Customers, Restaurants, Sludge, Tend

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.

Years, Optimism, Campaigns, Old, Bladder

No one of us is more important than the rest of us.

Important, Rest

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

Based, Business, Focus, Quality, Reputation

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

Perfect, Fundamentals, Wells, Fundamental, Expect

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. 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.

Achievement, Enterprise, Pride, Risk, Take, World

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Mcdonalds, Mind, Buns, Hamburger, Certain

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