
Have you been rejected or disappointed time and time again? Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, did. But he took his failures and didn’t give up to make the world better.
When he was 40 years old, he began to sell chicken dishes in a service station. There is a competitor as he began to advertise his food. Following the World War II, he tried to franchise his restaurant. Before anyone had accepted his recipe, it was rejected 1009 times. Sanders’ “secret recipe” was coined “Kentucky Fried Chicken”, and quickly became a hit.
After years of failures and misfortunes, Sanders finally hit it big. KFC expanded internationally and he sold his company for two million dollars. At age 90, Sanders passed away from pneumonia. At that time, there were around 6,000 KFC locations in 48 countries. By 2013, there were an estimated 18,000 KFC locations in 118 countries.