Top 67 Truett Quotes
#1. How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing. TRUETT CATHEY
#2. Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.
#3. As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.
#4. I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
#5. I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
#6. It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
#7. We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
#8. The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop
#9. And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
#10. If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.
#11. It's better to build boys than mend men.
#12. If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
#13. I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
#14. I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.
#15. Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.
#16. People want to work with a person, not for a company.
#17. You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!
#18. We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
#19. We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
#20. I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
#21. In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.
#22. I cook chicken for a living.
#23. In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
#24. It's OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart.
#25. I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
#26. Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
#27. Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
#28. As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.
#29. Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food.
#30. Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.
#31. I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
#32. Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.
#33. If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
#34. Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.
#35. Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again.
#36. Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
#37. Whatever you do ... put your heart and soul into it!
#38. The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.
#39. Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
#40. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.
#41. If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.
#42. You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.
#43. Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.
#44. You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
#45. Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust.
#46. Sometimes success is disguised as hard work.
#47. I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
#48. I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
#49. To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
#50. Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.
#51. I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
#52. There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.
#53. If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.
#54. I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
#55. If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
#56. Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
#57. My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.
#58. If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.
#59. No goal is too high if we climb with care and confidence.
#60. One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.
#61. I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
#62. I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
#63. How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!
#64. We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.
#65. The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
#66. To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.
#67. I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.
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