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.

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

I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.