Hello friends 👋 today's story is about the famous business man of America named of Colonel Sanders. So let's see his story of KFC ( Kentucky fried chicken) .
So let's start the story.
A long time ago, there was a man born somewhere in United States. He was belonging to middle class family.
His father was a loving family man and used to work in his farm. When he was five years old, one summer in the afternoon his father came home with a fever. He saw his father in pain but didn't understand what was going on? That day doctor was called twice, he could see from far, his mother crying.
He got scared because that was the first time he saw his mother cry. Next day, his father died. He was too young to realise what has happened? But always remember that summer afternoon, all his life. After his father's death, his mother started stitching clothes of others people .
And also got a job in a factory.
At the age of 7,he leaned how to cook? And to feed his younger siblings as his mom was away working. One day he baked his first bread, he wanted to show this to his mother but she was working in a factory three miles away.
He grabbed the bread and took his five years old brother and sister along with him. Three of them walked three miles across the field. Finally he could show his mother his fist loaf of bread. When they reached factory he started searching for his mother.
She saw him from far, carrying a loaf of bread in his hand and having a huge smile on his face. She came, held the bread in her hand and gave him a big hug. And when he was 10 years old, he became work as a helper in the farmland and then took up job painting horse carriages.
He left school after sixth grade, so he could work full time then life moved on, job after job, he sometimes worked as a conductor. After that, he joined the United States army for a while, then cleaned trains and even worked as a helper in railway construction.
Maybe he was never satisfied and he was still searching. And when he was 18 years old, then he met a beautiful girl. They both fell in love soon, got married and had three beautiful children.
But one day, he got fired from his job. Once he reached home his wife was gone, there was a note from his wife's brother saying, "she had no business marrying a no good fellow like you". He then convinced her to come back.
After that, he studied and practiced law for some years and then became an insurance salesman. All this while moving from one career to another. And when he was 30 year old, he established a ferry boat company, the ferry was an instant success.
He sold the shares of the company and started a new one, wanting to do something bigger. He established a company manufacturing oil lamps, hired sales people across the country. The business initially started well, with some new orders coming in every day.
He felt good, finally I have made it! But destiny had some other plans. A company name Delco introduced electric lamps and the venture failed. Then he started working as a salesman in the Michelin Tires but there too, he lost his job when the manufacturing plant was shut down. He again started looking for some work and travelled to different cities, to find it. When coming back, with no money in his pocket, he was looking for a lift to get back home. Then a man stopped and picked up in his big car.
He shared with the stranger his story, how is he looking for some work? That stranger turned out to be the state manager for the standard oil. The manager asked him would you like to run a service station? He had no experience of what it takes to run a service station but he said yes. For six years he managed the place successfully, he sold more fuel than anywhere in the state.
But then the great dipression came, his station closed down like many other business at that time. As luck would have it, at that time shell company offered him to run a service station, rent free
As the age of 40, he opened the new service station and also starting serving food. People loved hid recipes. He didn't have any seating in the service station, that's why people would eat in his adjacent living quarters.
The business grew big. Then he bought a motel nearby and converted it into a 140 seat restaurant. Gradually time went on and he was finally successful but when he was 63 year old, his booming restaurant took a massive hit. A new interstate highway was built which took traffic off the route where his restaurant was situated. His business collapsed and his restaurant was auctioned in front of him. He could not do anything to save it.
He was almost bankrupt , it was his life's biggest failure. But he still wanted to try, all these failures have taught him one thing "not to give up" he decided to sell his recipe to various restaurants, at a small cost. He borrowed $87 went door to door to try and sell his recipe. People told him, he is getting old, he should retire. What will he achieve in trying to sell a good for nothing recipe at some ch an old age. But he did what he always did in his life, he moved forward. He lived in his car for 2 years, but everywhere he went there rejections one after the other. He was rejected 1009 times. Finally at the age of 65, he met a restaurant owner, he cooked his recipe and made him eat it. The owner liked it, he said yes. Now decades after that one restaurant, the number has grown to over 20,000 restaurants across the world with annual sales reaching over $23 billion.
In this way this story of Colonel Sanders tells us that, if he would have retired or accepted failure, there would not have been any KFC. So we don't even try to achieve our dreams because we fear failure or remember the failures of past when we tried and failed then we should face it and move forward.
Thank you all...
The story is long but included too much moral in it.
ReplyDeleteReally motivational story.