The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too. S. Truett Cathy More Quotes by S. Truett Cathy More Quotes From S. Truett Cathy Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning. S. Truett Cathy tried how beginning people I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way. S. Truett Cathy good you business religion In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. S. Truett Cathy great you great-depression depression I cook chicken for a living. S. Truett Cathy cook chicken living 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. S. Truett Cathy nothing see work people I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do. S. Truett Cathy tell know me business Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business. S. Truett Cathy decision business god way 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. S. Truett Cathy bad me you school 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. S. Truett Cathy priorities sunday decision success Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done. S. Truett Cathy chicken road prove done I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. S. Truett Cathy restaurant back community team If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business. S. Truett Cathy own man business life We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.' S. Truett Cathy here tell you life If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free. S. Truett Cathy challenge try you worry I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100. S. Truett Cathy die good you people It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed. S. Truett Cathy go you shopping people I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty. S. Truett Cathy lesson up you poverty Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here. S. Truett Cathy wait doing enjoy i-can I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression. S. Truett Cathy image deep myself depression
