There was a perfect time for him to become succesful
Age doesn't matter right?
It was started when year 1895 when his father died. As the eldest child at the age of five, He was left to care for his two siblings. When he turned seven his mother taught him how to cook. After leaving the family home at age 13, he pursued several professions including railroad worker and insurance salesman, with mixed success. In 1930, he took over a Shell filling station on US Route 25 just outside North Corbin, a small city on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains. It was here that he first served to travelers the recipes that he had learned as child: fried chicken and other dishes such as steaks and country ham. It was all began here. After four years of serving from his own dining room table, he purchased the larger filling station on the other side of the road and expanded to six tables. By 1936, this had proven successful enough for him to be given the honorary title of his success by the Governor. In 1937 he expanded his restaurant to 142 seats, and added a motel he purchased across the street and named it next to his name.
By 1963 he already have 600 branches of his restaurants, making the company the largest fast food operation in the United States. Then the following year, he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown Jr. and Jack C. Massey for $2 million. The contract include the lifetime salary for him and the agreement that he would be the company's quality controller and trademark. The chain had reached 3,000 outlets in 48 different countries by 1970. After ten years he died, his promotional work making him a prominent figure in American cultural history. By the time of his death, there was ab estimated 6,000 outlets in 48 different countries worldwide, with $2 billion of sales annually.
After he was turned down one-thousand and nine times before his chicken was accepted once.
Do you know who is he?
Yes! It's amazing how the man started at the age of 65, when most retire, and built a global empire out of fried chicken and he is Colonel Harland Sanders who became a world-known figure by marketing his "finger lickin' good" Kentucky Fried Chicken also known as KFC.
It's Colonel Sanders saying, "Believe. Dream. Try. Succeed. Age, no bar!"
Useful links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC
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Age is just a number! I followed and nice post :)