HE FAILED 1000 TIMES

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

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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

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