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

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

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

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.

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.

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.

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.