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

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

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.

Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

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

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

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.