Harland David Sanders

Early Life
• Harland David Sanders was born on September 9, 1890
• His father died in 1895 when he was only 6 years old  
• His mother got work in a tomato cannery, and the young Harland was left to look after
and cook for his siblings.
• By the age of seven, he was already a skilled cook.
• In 1903, he dropped out of seventh grade and went to live and work on a nearby farm.
• At age 13, he left home and took a job painting horse carriages
• When he was 14, he moved to southern Indiana to work as a farmhand.
Various jobs
• Colonel Sanders spent the first half of his life working on many jobs.
• He,
Was selling Insurance
Was selling tires
Was a farmer
Steamboat pilot
A Secretory
A Lawyer
Was a ferry boat operator….. and many more.
• In the age of 40 that Colonel Sanders began selling his chicken dishes inside a gas station.

• And his business became more and more popular.

• In the next decade he developed his "secret recipe" for frying chicken.

• But at the age of 65, his restaurant went broke! And for the first time in his life, he had to
sign for social security.

• He was 65, and retired, but he never stopped believing in his dream!
• He used his first social security check of only $105, and traveled across the United States in
search of potential business partners offering them his secret recipe.

• It was one of the hardest periods of his life.

• He was living in his car surviving with little food, facing rejection after rejection, but giving
up was never an option.

• Colonel Sanders was rejected 1009 times before his chicken recipe was accepted only once!
• He ran the company while Claudia mixed and shipped the spices to restaurants.

• The franchise approach became highly successful; KFC was one of the first fast
food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in Canada and later in the
UK, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s.

• Sanders obtained a patent protecting his method of pressure frying chicken in

1962,and trademarked the phrase "It's Finger Lickin' Good" in 1963.
• Later Sanders was diagnosed with acute leukemia in June 1980.

• The grate Entrepreneur and the founder of KFC restaurant Harland

David Sanders died at a Jewish hospital in Louisville , of pneumonia
on December 16, 1980, at the age of 90
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- Chethasi Fernando