Colonel Sanders Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

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#4. To me, my recipes are priceless.

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#5. 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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#6. I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

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

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#8. I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

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

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

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#12. Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

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

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#15. 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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#16. Don't be against things so much as for things.

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

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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.

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

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

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#24. 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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