293: Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2023-03-06
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“He's not thinking he's gonna make a ton of money by building this huge franchise system that McDonald's becomes, right?”
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Focus
“They actually married for 35 years, and his decision to go all into McDonald's actually, actually causes them to get divorced.”
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People
“A lot of people would say I'm dreaming.”
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Persistence
“I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.”
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Capital
“I always use the reference of the fact if you go and study Johnny Rockefeller's career, he literally believed that he felt…”
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