No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.