Ray Kroc Quotes
If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
Kroc, Ray. Quoted in Boas, Max, and Steve Chain. Big Mac: The Unauthorized Story of McDonald's. E. P. Dutton, 1976, p. 11.
Yamamoto planned and commanded the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. However, he thought that the Japanese Declaration of War would be delivered in Washington before the attack as was required then by the international rules of war. The Japanese Government however did not deliver the war declaration until after the attack. Yamamoto was not only distressed about the non delivery but was concerned that the “sneak attack” was going to motivate the Americans to an all out war, when the Japanese strategy had been to negotiate a rapid peace giving them more freedom of action in the Pacific. Yamamoto was right. “Remember Pearl Harbor” became the rallying cry, and America would accept no peace other than Japanese Unconditional Surrender.
Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, after the McDonald brothers had franchised nine locations out from their original 1948 operation in San Bernardino. This set the stage for national expansion with the help of Kroc, eventually leading to a global franchise, making it the most successful fast food corporation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a multi-million dollar fortune during his lifetime. He owned the San Diego Padres baseball team from 1974 until his death in 1984.
