Reading Reflection No.3
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's ... by Ray Kroc It was interesting learning of how Ray Kroc began his entrepreneurship. Learning how he began at such a young age, simply selling paper cups 19 hours a day, made me think back on how something huge must always start very small. Of course Kroc did fail countless times before reaching high success, but his perception of the world around him pushed him into being a great business man. Kroc saw business opportunities as endless, all around him, just waiting to be opened up and shared with the rest of the world. I admire him for this. Although, if I had to choose something about him that I least admire, is that Kroc often took the credit for founding McDonald's...when he surely did not. Similarly to myself, each time Kroc failed, he learns from it and builds himself up to be even better, even stronger, even more hardworking. He had a goal, to build an empire, and he would stop at nothing till he ruled. I noticed throu...
