Colonel Sanders Quotes

“To me, my recipes are priceless.”

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

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.

— Colonel Sanders

“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?”

— Colonel Sanders

“A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten.”

— Colonel Sanders

“Don't be against things so much as for things.”

— Colonel Sanders

“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.”

— Colonel Sanders

“I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.”

— Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

“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.”

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

“I'm too drunk to taste this chicken”

— Colonel Sanders

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.

— Colonel Sanders

“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.”

— Colonel Sanders

“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.”

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

“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 Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

“Scientists are a bunch of romantics.”

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders

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

— Colonel Sanders