Colonel Sanders
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Best
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
Don't be against things so much as for things.
To me, my recipes are priceless.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.
I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.
I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.
A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten.
It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.
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?
Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working.
I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
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.
I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.
I could see it wasn't going to be easy. I couldn't give a franchise to any old greasy spoon. And I knew the chicken had to be cooked the way I told them to cook it if it was going to be as popular as it could be.
In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential candidate, along with other choices such as 'Happy' Chandler and General Curtis LeMay. However, I am not interested in any political office in the United States or anywhere, now or back in 1968.
My life is devoted to business and supporting my family.
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.Collection: Two
One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.Collection: Encouraging
I'm too drunk to taste this chickenCollection: Funny
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.Collection: Age
I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.Collection: Dream
Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.Collection: Rich
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Years
Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.Collection: Men
The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept awayCollection: Dream
There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.Collection: People
Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.Collection: Hard Work
People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.Collection: People
My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Life
A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.Collection: Men
Scientists are a bunch of romantics.Collection: Scientist