S. Truett Cathy Quotes

American - Businessman | March 14, 1921 - September 8, 2014

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

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We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

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We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.

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Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

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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.

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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.

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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?'

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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.

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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.

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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

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