While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.

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.

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.

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

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.