S. Truett Cathy Quotes
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Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.
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I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
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I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
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You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.