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Ray Kroc  

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  • Founder of McDonald's Corporation Born in Chicago, Raymond Albert Kroc spent so much time thinking up wild schemes and business ideas during his adolescent and teenage years that family and friends considered him a bona fide daydreamer. No one in Ray's family ever believed or conceived he would eventually become a legendary entrepreneur and business genius. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Kroc, Ray (1902–1984)]

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