Colonel Sanders Quotes

I’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
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Cook Money Myself Reading
There’s something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.
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Compassionate Difficult Help Kind Myself People
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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Dedication Determination Money Myself Time
Scientists are a bunch of romantics.
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One Liner Romantic Science
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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Government Life Money Myself
I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.
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Dreams Ideas Myself Opinion Start Thinking
There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.
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Business Deep Man Reason Rich Yourself
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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Ability Accomplishment Best Feeling Myself Rule Yourself
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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Difference See Time Work Worth Yourself
One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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Inspirational Motivational Oneself Remember Failure Stone
People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
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Equipment People Quick
Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
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Deep Food Poor Rich
Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.
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Hard Work Inspirational Vitamin World
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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Book Cook Food Myself Reading
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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Age Life Moral Myself Patience Quit
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.
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Age Cook Decision Food Live Myself Old Try
Work is the basis of living. I’ll never retire. A man’ll rust out quicker than he’ll wear out.
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Live Man Myself Quick Work
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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Dedication Determination Hard Work Inspirational Money Motivational Myself Time Win
I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
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Myself Name Proud Restaurant
To me, my recipes are priceless.
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Food Myself Price Recipe Worth
The food I’ve liked in my time is American country cookin’.
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Cook Country Food Myself Time
A lot of learned men think people really are the food they’ve eaten.
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Eat Food Learning Man People Thinking
The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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Build Confidence Foundation Hard Inspirational
Don’t be against things so much as for things.
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