Too Chicken to Try? Meet the Man Who Wasn’t
“I was 66 years old. I still had a lot of living to do.”
The Story
At age 5, Harland Sanders was cooking for his siblings after his father died.
At 16, he dropped out of school.
At 40, he ran a service station and started serving meals at the back of it.
At 62, a new highway bypassed his town, killing his business.
At 65, he received his first social security cheque — and decided it wasn’t going to cut it.
So what did he do?
He hit the road in a battered car, with a pressure cooker, a spice mix, and a dream.
He pitched over 1,000 times before someone said yes. And that was the beginning of the empire we now know as KFC.
He wasn’t young.
He wasn’t rich.
He wasn’t surrounded by hype or hashtags.
He just believed in what he had — and refused to let rejection define the ending.
The Real Secret Recipe
It wasn’t just 11 herbs and spices.
It was resilience, refusal, and reinvention.
Colonel Sanders didn’t reinvent fried chicken.
He reinvented himself.
And that’s the part people forget.
One Final Thought
If you're worried you've missed your chance — maybe your secret recipe just hasn’t found the right kitchen yet.
