All their lives, people have always discovered how to succeed. Someone who has not found it in his lifetime is because he gave up on the 99th time, and some even earlier. However, someone experienced 1009 failures, and finally entered the track of success at the age of 62, and from then on his life to the peak, known as KFC grandpa, KFC founder Harlan Sanders. KFC is the world's largest fried chicken fast food chain, with more than 10,000 restaurants around the world. Designed in the image of Colonel Harlan Sandoz, the KFC logo has become one of the best and most recognizable brands in the world. The founder of the KFC fast food restaurant is also one of the most familiar American celebrities.
In 1890, Harlan Sanders, a small village in Indiana, USA, was born, and from a poor family, he dropped out of school at the age of fourteen to earn a living. Before the age of 35, Harlan Sanders had changed jobs, worked as a handyman on a farm, worked as a conductor, lied about his age, joined the army, worked as a lawyer, and worked as an insurance salesman. I have done many careers, but none of them have been smooth. However, the misfortune continued, at the age of 35, when he was a tire salesman, driving over a bridge, he fell into the river with his car, was seriously injured, and almost died. However, he quipped that it seemed that he would not be able to do the job of selling tire workers anymore. Just as the so-called great difficulty does not die, there will be a blessing. But in the years that followed, Harlan Sanders had nothing but an optimistic heart. His last job was as an operator at a gas service station, and with a meager income, he wanted to get some extra money, which was the idea that later created the KFC restaurant empire.
Harlan Sanders, 40, came to Kentucky to open a gas station. The United States was experiencing a period of total victory in the industrial explosion, building a large number of roads, and cars became the standard for Americans. But road trips bring a huge problem, and long drives can't feed enough. Harlan Sanders thought that his cooking skills were not bad, so he opened a snack bar on the side of the road, selling his own fast food fried chicken, but he did not expect that the business was very prosperous, getting bigger and bigger. His restaurant quickly went viral through KFC. By 1935, Grandpa KFC's fried chicken was well known, and Kentucky Governor Ruby Lafon officially awarded him the title of Colonel of KFC in recognition of his special contribution to the diet. So people called him dear Colonel Sanders.
However, fate did not favor him from then on. When World War II broke out in 1939, his gas station was requisitioned by the government, forcing him to focus on the fried chicken shop. But soon after, the location of his restaurant was passed by a newly built highway, and the restaurant was immediately closed. This sudden change pushed Colonel Sanders into the abyss, and all the investment was instantly wiped out. The newlywed, respected colonel ended up poor and had to rely on a $105 a month social assistance payment to survive. But Sanders was not discouraged, and at the age of 66 he was still thinking about counterattacking, and he pondered what to do to get out of the predicament. The thing he has the most value is probably fried chicken. So he decided to sell his own spice recipe to make money. Simply put, the recipe for fried chicken is sold to a restaurant, and a fried chicken sold in the restaurant is paid to Sandoz for a patent fee of 5 cents. In this way, Colonel Sanders began his second venture.
He took his old Ford on the road with a pressure cooker and a 50-pound ingredient bucket, wearing a white suit and black bow, a white-haired colonel dressed as a Southern gentleman parked at the door of every hotel, selling fried chicken recipes from KFC to Ohio. During the two years of selling the secret recipe, he encountered numerous rejections, but Sandoz did not give up until he met his 1010th customer and finally got his approval. Slowly, his ideas were accepted by more and more people.
In 1952, the first authorized KFC restaurant was established, which was the beginning of the world's catering franchise. Then, surprisingly, KFC's restaurant business snowballed. He has grown to 400 stores in the United States and Canada. In 1955, Harlan Sanders' KFC Limited was officially established. Meanwhile, he accepted an offer from a TV station's talk show, and Harlan Sanders appeared in front of the public with his years of black-rimmed glasses. The image of the grandfather, the male colonel cooking fried chicken, soon attracted many reporters and TV hosts. Ken Harlan Sanders, nearly 70, is surrounded by a large number of people who want to work with him, and representatives of restaurants who want to buy concessions are still flocking to him. Later, Sandoz sold KFC's partial exclusivity, but given his huge reputation, the investors paid Harlan Sanders exclusively. Police officers in the north of Zhongsen Company continued to serve as spokesman for KFC Fried Chicken, when he was in his eighties. However, age and wealth did not affect his passion for his work. To this end, KFC Grandpa also travels up to 250,000 kilometers a year, selling KFC fried chicken everywhere.
He was once asked why he worked diligently and diligently, and he said, "More people are born of idleness than those who are exhausted." If I rust from idleness, I'll go to hell. Although KFC's career has changed since then, the way the franchise has been operated has not changed. KFC's image is always a white suit, full of white hair, black-rimmed glasses, and a smiling Colonel Sanders. Harlan Sanders – "Grandpa KFC" died of leukemia in December 1980 at the age of ninety.
Harlan Sanders is a legend, with his own life to compose a person who believes in himself, never give up, endure the intolerability of ordinary people, there will be a climax of life. Even if it comes late in life, it will surely come. The founder is not only to create a career, but also to cultivate his own life, and the accumulation of quantitative change will eventually usher in the outbreak of life.
People must also believe in themselves, success may be in the next time, insist on not giving up, choose their own path to success.