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

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.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

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.