Colonel Sanders, KFC, and the Power of Never Giving Up
Colonel Sanders, KFC, and the Power of Never Giving Up Mindset • Motivation • Legacy • Family • Never Give Up KFC’s Colonel Sanders: The Man, the Myth, the Mascot — and the Mindset That Refused to Quit Written by Amarjeet Singh @ AJ The fast-food world has many mascots. Most are created by advertising agencies. Some are jokes. Some disappear when trends change. But Colonel Sanders is different. He was not born as a mascot. He became one because he lived a life of rejection, struggle, late starts, and relentless belief. “Some people are remembered because they succeeded. Others are remembered because they refused to stop.” Before the White Suit, There Was Hard Life Born in 1890, Harland David Sanders did not grow up with privilege. He worked many jobs — farmhand, fireman, tyre salesman, blacksmith, insurance salesman. Nothing stuck. Nothing came easy. And success did not arrive early. Many would have called him unstable. Many woul...