this is the story about a boy from henryville indiana in 1895 when he was six years old his father passed away his mother had to start working in a tomato cannery leaving him to cook and care for his siblings life hit him hard at a very young age and because of the difficult situation he faced he had to work as a farm hand at the age of 10. when he was in sixth grade he dropped out of high school and left his home he started working as a painter of horse carriages when he was 16
he faked his age to enlist in the us army after being honorably discharged a year later he started working as a railway laborer and studied law at the nearby university until he ruined his legal career by getting into a fight he was forced to move back in with his mom and get a job selling life insurances after some time he got fired for not following orders some years later he established a ferryboat company and it was an instant success later on he tried cashing in on his ferrybot business to create a chemical lamp manufacturing company
only to find out that another company was already selling electric lamps much better than his company's lamps all this hardship in life but this guy wouldn't give up he moved to work as a salesman for tire company but again he lost his job when the company closed its manufacturing plant by the age of 40 he met the general manager of an oil company who asked him to run a service station for him but the station had to close down again as a result of the great depression that same year the shell oil company offered him
a service station rent free in return for paying the company a percentage of sales he started operating the service station and also began to serve chicken dishes and other simple meals for people who are stopping by at the station his pan-fried chicken soon became a favorite with the people of the area and made him famous in the region few years later he took out the station and started a proper restaurant after fairly succeeding at this venture he started to advertise his food and to his shock an argument erupted out of the blue with a local
competitor and resulted in a fatal shootout with one of his employees dying four years later he bought a motel next to his chicken restaurant hoping for better business but it caught fire and burnt down to the ground together with his restaurant yet this ambitious man rebuilt and ran a new motel with a 140 seat restaurant until world war ii forced him to close it down again when war had ended he tried selling his recycles to other restaurants [Music] his wrestling was rejected 1009 times when finally in 1952 he sold his secret dress ip kentucky fried
chicken for the first time to the operator of one of the city's largest restaurants it quickly became a hit and as a result several other restaurant owners franchised the concept and paid him four cents per chicken however good times didn't last very long his own restaurant was crippled when an interested highway reduced customer traffic he sold it and was left only with his savings and 105 dollars a month from social security so finally he pursued his dream to franchise his chicken concept nationwide and traveled the u.s looking for suitable restaurants he opened a new restaurant
and a company headquarters in 1959 he often slept in the back of his car he visited restaurants offered to cook his chicken and if the owners liked it then he negotiated a franchise right in 1965 at the age of 75 he was just getting started after years of rejection failures misfortunes colonel sanders franchise approach became highly successful kfc was one of the first fast food chains to expand globally opening outlets in canada uk mexico and jamaica by the mid-1960s the colonel remained the company's symbol after selling it he traveled over 400 000 kilometers a year
visiting kfc restaurants and delighting customers around the world [Music] at the age of 90 colonel sanders passed away at that time there were around six 000 kfc locations in 48 different countries in 2018 there were 22 621 kfc restaurants worldwide if you are overwhelmed by rejection or discouraged by setbacks remember the story of colonel sanders a sixth grade dropout fired from multiple jobs ruined his legal career set back by the great depression fire and world war ii and yet he became the world's most famous cook after reaching retirement age colonel sanders the creator of one
of the largest fast food chains in the world was many things but above all he was a great success story with his story we can learn that despite of thousands of rejections and misfortunes how dedication along with hard work can create success regardless of age thanks for watching and stay blessed
