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.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

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

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

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

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.