If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.
The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.