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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We don’t expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles. S. Truett Cathy Read Quote
Putting people before profits is how we’ve tried to operate from the beginning. S. Truett Cathy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. S. Truett Cathy Read Quote
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?’ S. Truett Cathy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. S. Truett Cathy Read Quote
