I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.
COLONEL SANDERSI’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
More Colonel Sanders Quotes
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Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
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People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
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To me, my recipes are priceless.
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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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I’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don’t even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
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I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
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Don’t be against things so much as for things.
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I just say the moral out of my life is don’t quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn’t come in yet. Mine hadn’t.
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I’ve only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
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No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
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My life isn’t over and I’m not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it – because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don’t you see?
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Scientists are a bunch of romantics.
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There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.
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