Colonel Sanders Quotes
110 Colonel Sanders Quotes
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Two years later I got fired… and I didn’t care to railroad anymore.
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[On his first restaurant] I feed truck drivers, millionaires all at the same table. I didn’t know anything about the restaurant business. I didn’t know what top of the hold, a la carte or anything like that meant. We would cook meals for our family but wouldn’t eat right away ourselves… sometimes we would sell [the meals] all out, sometimes we didn’t.
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Where either you’re on your own job or you’re dreaming about different things and you can always take something in your life and make it better.
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We know we’ve got a good thing… They just think it is the chicken but it’s got to be like Kentucky Fried Chicken if it’s going to win it’s way in the world.
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When Jesus took the cussing out I lost 50% of my vocabulary.
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I was born on the farm. I got a job working on the farm…
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I was 5 years old when Papa died…
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My mother was a poor widow woman on the farm. She made dresses for the girls… She would direct me on what to do with the food she had on the stove – what to add… so I came up a cooking just as a kid.
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By the time I was 7 years old I was making a family lightbread.
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I was 7. My sister was 5 years younger, she was 2.
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I guess that’s the reason why I finally fell back on the restaurant business, I knew something about food and how to handle it. That’s where I got the idea… of developing my chicken recipe.
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[On the highway interstate coming through, cutting traffic dramatically away from his restaurant] The question was what can I save out of this wreck? People liked my chicken …
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[On naming KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken] I wanted to be called Kentucky Fried Chicken… Because I didn’t want to be Southern Fried… because it was wasn’t Southern Fried. So I called mine Kentucky Fried. Kentucky is a wonderful name anyway.
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[On his old restaurant after the new highway interstate was put through seven miles away from his store taking traffic with it before founding KFC] I sold it at auction. I just got enough out of it to pay my taxes and bills you see… I was 66 years old when I started franchising in earnest.
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I was 65 when I had a guinea pig franchise out or two. Knowing that I was going to have to franchise and see how it would take you see. So then I started franchising in earnest when I was 66 years old.
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[On how long it took for KFC to take off] It took about two years. I made only about a nickel on every chicken that they sold. And they got three dinners out of it. But I got one nickel for the whole meal. But you’d be surprised at how fast those nickels added up… I finally got up to where I had an income of a thousand dollars a day.
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My only reason for selling the company was I didn’t have anybody to succeed me in running it from my wife and two daughters…
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I thought that $2 million would last the rest of my life. But it didn’t… I gave my first payment of $50,000 to the Salvation Army…
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[In 1979 on KFC stores] We’re in 51 countries around the world with over 7,500 stores.
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I gave my [KFC] Canadian franchise to charity… I gave the whole $6 million company to charity… For that reason I’ve got about 1,000 students on scholarships throughout the country in eight different colleges and that’s better than me getting it. Because if I got that income it would go to taxes…
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[On the man above] I thought he’d do something for me, and I’m trying to do it.
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If I could just make peace with my maker…
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I used to curse terrible…
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I wanted to quit for years and years, but I couldn’t quit to save my life.
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I could do the prettiest curse in the world…
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Time is getting shorter all the time for all of us…
Time is getting shorter…for all of us…
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When I started this chicken business… I prayed to God that… he’d make it a success… And I hope that I have and am still doing it.
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I just don’t know too many 89, 88 year old men travelling a quarter of a million miles a year and doing the work like I always did.
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[On being in a car accident and someone saying they would call for a doctor and then proceeded to fix himself] Y’all call a damn doctor when I say so.
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[To his daughter Margaret his official taste tester] Here it is if anything should happen to me here is the list of the eleven different herbs and spices.
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[On starting out with nothing financial at age 65 except for his cheque from social security for $105 per month] That paid for my gas and the travel needed to get the franchises started. Lots of nights I would sleep in the back of my car so I would have enough money to buy cookers the next day if someone took a franchise.
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Nobody else has what we’ve got – the greatest chicken in the world.
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Service is the best thing in the world you can give to your customers.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – just different kinds of good weather.
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It makes me feel good that my food has helped make life a little easier for people.
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I cursed by note.
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[On being asked why he was still working at almost 90 years of age] I think as long as you’ve got health and ability why, use it!
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It’s all good you know.
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You’re once a man and twice a child.
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I dearly love children… I have five grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
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