Colonel Sanders Quotations

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

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?

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.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

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

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 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.

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

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

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.

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

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

To me, my recipes are priceless.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

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

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken