KFC- Kentucky Fried Chicken | Biography Of Colonel Harland David Sander. | It's never too late.

 KFC- Kentucky Fried Chicken, Founder Colonel Sander started his recipes when he was 65 in one restaurant and decades after that it grows over 20,000 restaurant. Following is the short biography of Colonel  Sander.

Childhood life  

      There was a man born in simple middle class family in United States. His father was loving man used to work in his farm. When he was 5 years old, one day he saw his father in pain. That day doctor was called twice, he could see from far his mother crying. Later that day his father died.

     After his father's death, his mother started stitching clothes and also got job in factory. At the age of 7 boy learned cooking because he had to feed his younger siblings as his mom was away working. When he was 10 he began work as a helper in the farmland and then took up job painting horse carriage.

     He left school after 6th Grade, so he could work full time. Job after job, he sometime work as a conductor, then joined United States army for a while, then cleaned trains and even worked as a helper in railway construction.

Youth life

     He got married when he was 18 and had beautiful children. But one day he got fired from his job. When he reached home his wife also left him.

1st phase of business

     At the age of 30 he established ferry boat company, the ferry got an instant success. He established one more company manufacturing oil lamps, hired sales people across the country. The business initially started well, with some new orders coming in every day. But destiny had other plans. A company name Delco introduced electric lamps, and venture failed.

     He again started looking for some work. He met the man 'state manager for standard oil'. Manager asked him to run a service station. He had no experience but for six years he managed the place successfully. He sold more fuel than anywhere in the state but the great depression came, his station closed down.

2nd phase of his business

     At the age of 40 he started serving food. People loved his recipes. The business grew big. He later bought a hotel nearby and converted into 140 seats restaurant. Time went on, finally he was successful. But when he was 63, a new interstate highway was built which took off his restaurant. His business collapsed. It was his life's biggest failure.

But he still wanted to try, all these failure taught him one thing, not to give up.

     He decided to sell his recipes to various restaurant at small cost. He went door to door to try and sell his recipes. He lived in his car for two years, but everywhere he went there were rejection one after the other. He was rejected 1009 times. Finally at the age of 65 he met a restaurant owner, he cooked his recipes and made him eat it. The owner liked it, he said yes. Now the decade after that one restaurant, the number has grown to over 20,000 restaurants accross the world with annual sales reaching over $ 23 billion.

     All 20,000 of them serving the same recipes which a 65 years old man was trying to sell and was rejected over 1000 times.

    He is 'Colonel Harland David Sanders'. Founder of " Kentucky Fried Chicken - KFC". If he would have retired or accepted failure there would not have been any KFC . Hundreds and thousands of jobs that were created because of him, would never have been created.

Birth - 9 September 1890

Death- 16 December 1980