Colonel Sanders Quotes

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

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.

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.

There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

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.

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

The food I’ve liked in my time is American country cookin’.

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

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?

Work is the basis of living. I’ll never retire. A man’ll rust out quicker than he’ll wear out.

Don’t be against things so much as for things.