Words matter. These are the best S. Truett Cathy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We don’t expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
I struggled to get through high school. I didn’t get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
If a man can’t manage his own life, he can’t manage a business.
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
You don’t have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There’s nothing wrong with that.
I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that’s probably the first question I’d like to ask: ‘Why was it necessary?’
I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
We tell applicants, ‘If you don’t intend to be here for life, you needn’t apply.’
I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
I’ve experienced poverty and plenty, and there’s a lesson to be learned when you’re brought up in poverty.
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else – our time, our love, our resources.
