Don't start a business if you're a good guy

Jillian 2022-03-26 09:01:05

The story of the Golden Arches begins here. It originated from a 52-year-old middle-aged and elderly American who was unwilling to retire. In the process of selling milkshake mixers, he smelled a little fishy smell of making a fortune.

The origin of everything is so simple, it's incredible. There is a cold restaurant with no decoration standing alone in the big desolate open space. Who would have thought that a huge amount of wealth is buried here. No matter how great the wealth is, someone needs to dig it. The McDonald brothers are satisfied when they see the gold on the ground, but Ray smells the entire American gold bars hidden underneath like a hound. He has put in a lot of hard work, persistently insisting on starting from every difficulty, and the difficulties are getting bigger and bigger in the process. I was amazed to see that Ray never had the slightest bit of self-doubt, at least in the film, and he followed this path unswervingly, even though he had pledged his house and was running out of space to live in. Hesitate about your choice. I would say he was extremely lucky. If he hadn't met Harry Sonneborn, who gave him the idea of ​​buying real estate and selling hamburger restaurant franchise rights at that critical moment, he would have died long ago. Some people start a business smoothly, at the right time and in the right place, for example, Robin Li is in Baidu, and some people turn around a thousand times but finally achieve great things, such as Jack Ma in Alibaba. Entrepreneurship is not a road that everyone can take. Any bump on the road may make you lose all your efforts at a fatal moment. The most common way of death is the failure of funds. Ray was about to go bankrupt when he was expanding rapidly. According to his regular chain business model, even if he temporarily borrowed money to alleviate the capital problem, he would be dead sooner or later. Entrepreneurs are most likely to die. If I were Ray's ex-wife, I probably wouldn't support him to mortgage the property again to start a hamburger restaurant. After all, the milkshake-making machine business that I ventured into last time was a bleak failure. Ray is very hungry, and this hunger is doomed that if he fails at McDonald's, he will continue to start his own business when he is 60 or 70 years old. Besides, he is not a good person at all, and it is not surprising that he betrays anyone for the benefit of his own business. It is also very important that it is his turn to lie to others, but it is not his turn to lie to him. If you are a good old man, of course it is good to have no intention of harming others, if you do not even have the heart to defend others, then I advise you not to start any business, work hard or be a freelancer.

Michael Keaton really looks like Ray himself, even the resolute ruthlessness and the greed and cruelty written on his face are exactly the same.

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  • Dick McDonald: I just have to ask you one thing. Something I've never understood.

    Ray Kroc: Alright.

    Dick McDonald: That day we met, when we gave you the tour...

    Ray Kroc: Uh huh. What about it?

    Dick McDonald: We showed you everything. The whole system, all of our secrets. We were an open book. So why didn't you just...

    Ray Kroc: Steal it? Just, grab your ideas and run off, start my own business... using all those ideas of yours. It would have failed.

    Dick McDonald: How do you know?

    Ray Kroc: Am I the only one who got the kitchen tour? You must have invited lots of people back there, huh?

    Dick McDonald: And?

    Ray Kroc: How many of them succeeded?

    Dick McDonald: Lots of people started restaurants.

    Ray Kroc: As big as McDonald's?

    Dick McDonald: Of course not.

    Ray Kroc: No one ever has and no one ever will because they all lacked that one thing... that makes McDonald's special.

    Dick McDonald: Which is?

    Ray Kroc: Even you don't know what it is.

    Dick McDonald: Enlighten me.

    Ray Kroc: It's not just the system, Dick. It's the name. That glorious name, McDonald's. It could be, anything you want it to be... it's limitless, it's wide open... it sounds, uh... it sounds like... it sounds like America. That's compared to Kroc. What a crock. What a load of crock. Would you eat at a place named Kroc's? Kroc's has that blunt, Slavic sound. Kroc's. But McDonald's, oh boy. That's a beauty. A guy named McDonald? He's never gonna get pushed around in life.

    Dick McDonald: That's clearly not the case.

    Ray Kroc: So, you don't have a check for 1.35 million dollars in your pocket? Bye Dick.

    Dick McDonald: So if you can't beat'em, buy'em.

    Ray Kroc: I remember the first time I saw that name stretched across your stand out there. It was love at first sight. I knew right then and there... I had to have it. And now I do.

    Dick McDonald: You don't have it.

    Ray Kroc: You sure about that?

    Ray Kroc: Bye Dick.

  • Ray Kroc: Look, if you don't wanna make a profit, that's fine.But don't stop the rest of us.

    Dick McDonald: Us?

    Ray Kroc: Us, as in everyone but you.

    Dick McDonald: Who did you send them to?

    Ray Kroc: Everyone but you.

    Dick McDonald: You have no right. You are to stop this instant, is that clear?

    Ray Kroc: Nah...

    Dick McDonald: What the hell does that mean, nah? You will abide by the terms of your deal.

    Ray Kroc: I am through taking marching orders from you... You and your endless parade of NO's. Constantly cowering in the face of progress.

    Dick McDonald: If phony powdered milkshakes is your idea of progress you have a profound misunderstand of what McDonald's is about.

    Ray Kroc: I have a far greater understanding of McDonald's than you two yokles.

    Dick McDonald: What? You will do as we say.

    Ray Kroc: Nope.

    Dick McDonald: You have a contract!

    Ray Kroc: You know, contracts are like hearts... they're made to be broken.