RAY KROC BY:ALEEZA

PERSONAL INFO.

• Name-Ray Kroc
• Birthday-October 5, 1902
• Place of birth-Oak Park,Chicago,illinos
• Death-January 14, 1984
• Place of death-San Diego, California

BACKGROUND INFO.

• Mom-Rose Kroc
• Dad-Louis Kroc
• Wife-Ethel Fleming-divorced, Jane Dobbins-divorced, Joan Kroc
• Married-1922-first wife, 1963-2nd wife, 1969-married to final wife
• Kids-4kids

Obstacles to becoming successful
.the McDonald brothers didn't want to give Ray their first restaurant so Ray convinced them.
His company/milkshake machine went out of business so Ray bought McDonalds

COMPANIES,PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES

• Services-paper cup salesman,pianist,jazz musician,etc.
• Companies-radio station WGES,prince castle Multi mixer,mcdonalds inc.
• Products-milkshake machine,hamburgers,etc.

QUALITIES OR CHARACTERS OF RAY KROC

• Qualaties-kind(ambulance driver), ambitious(more stores),innovative(invented speedy service system)
• He was succesful because he invented Speedy Service System.
• He was ambitious because he purchased mcdonalds and took control of the reastraunt

WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM RAY KROC

• We can learn from Ray Kroc to be ambitios and innovative.
• He was succesful because of these characteristics. If we are also ambitios and innovative we can also be succesful

Refrences
www.biography.com
www.the famous people.com
www.entrepeuner.com
www.wikiansewers.com
www.wikipedia.org

Additional info.
He joined McDonalds in1954. Kroc was in time100. "I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego. Kroc's success came late in his life."If I had a brick for every time I repeated the phrase quality,service,cleanliness,and value I wold be able to build bridge to the Atlantic Ocean with them!"