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He decided to sell his recipe to various

restaurants at a small cost. He borrowed
$ 87 and went door to door to try and
sell his recipe.

People told him he was getting old, he

should retire.
“What will you achieve in trying to sell

something for nothing at such an old
age?” they said.

But he did what he always did in his life:
he moved forward. He lived in his car for
2 years, and everywhere he went, there

were rejections one after the other. He
was rejected 1009 times.

Finally, at the age of 65, he met a restaurant owner, cooked his recipe and made him eat it.
The owner liked it, and he said ‘yes’.

Now decades after that one restaurant, the number has grown to over 20,000 restaurants,

with annual sales reaching over $ 23 billion, all of them serving the same recipe.
A 65 year old man who was trying to sell a recipe was rejected over 1000 times? Can you

believe that?

He is Colonel Harland Sanders.
Founder of Kentucky Fried chicken (KFC). If he had accepted failure, there would not have

been a KFC today. Hundreds and thousands of jobs would have never been there, but for
Sanders.

The story of Colonel Sanders teaches us that we must never fear failure or remember failures
of the past when we tried and failed. We must never give up on our dreams. This is the secret

recipe for success!

Word Power

sewing: stitching siblings: brothers and sisters
recipe: set of instructions to make a dish motel: a small hotel for travel
collapsed: failed due to lack of cash (in a business) hit: negative effect

service station: place where vehicles are serviced or repaired auctioned: sale or offered for sale
bankrupt: people declared in law as unable to pay debts massive: huge, very big

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