"When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot."

"My whole life, I've been a salesman. I'm still a salesman."

"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."

"I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in hard work."

"One of my suppliers told me, 'Ray, you know you aren't in the hamburger business at all. You're in the French-fry business. I don't know how the livin' hell you do it, but you've got the best French f…"