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
becamethe world's most famous
cook afterreaching 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.

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