Truett Quotes & Sayings

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else. — S. Truett Cathy

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

The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God. — George W Truett

Sometimes success is disguised as hard work. — S. Truett Cathy

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression. — S. Truett Cathy

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement. — George W Truett

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. — S. Truett Cathy

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done. — S. Truett Cathy

We are moving away from the old idea of leadership
leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for ... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable ... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up ... — Walter Truett Anderson

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises. — S. Truett Cathy

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty. — S. Truett Cathy

I had to create some good work habits and attitude. — S. Truett Cathy

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

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. — George W Truett

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

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference. — S. Truett Cathy

I find no fault in Him. ... You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find
no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions. — George W Truett

That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men. — George W Truett

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop — S. Truett Cathy

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

Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again. — S. Truett Cathy

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

We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.' — S. Truett Cathy

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. — S. Truett Cathy

Whatever you do ... put your heart and soul into it! — S. Truett Cathy

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

Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism. — S. Truett Cathy

Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here. — S. Truett Cathy

I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that. — S. Truett Cathy

As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's. — S. Truett Cathy

To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available. — S. Truett Cathy

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good. — S. Truett Cathy

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God! — S. Truett Cathy

One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine. — Walter Truett Anderson

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing. TRUETT CATHEY — John C. Maxwell

Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE. — S. Truett Cathy

There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will. — George W Truett

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

No goal is too high if we climb with care and confidence. — S. Truett Cathy

I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership. — S. Truett Cathy

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business. — S. Truett Cathy

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing! — S. Truett Cathy

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

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work. — S. Truett Cathy

People want to work with a person, not for a company. — S. Truett Cathy

Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust. — S. Truett Cathy

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

Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world ... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars. — George W Truett

I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality. — Walter Truett Anderson

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write. — George W Truett

Several years ago we added "my pleasure" to the manners chart after we read the book How Did You Do It, Truett? by S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A. In it, Mr. Cathy tells how he studied the methods of five-star hotels and found that workers are required to say "My pleasure" instead of "You're welcome" when being thanked for something. In essence, one is saying, "Thank you for giving me the pleasure of serving you," and not, "Yes, it was such a sacrifice on my part. You're welcome." He found a direct link between business success and employees learning to treat costumers with the utmost courtesy and respect, and that was one of the principles he adopted for all Chick-fil-A workers. — Jill Duggar

I cook chicken for a living. — S. Truett Cathy

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

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

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. — S. Truett Cathy

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do. — S. Truett Cathy

The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion ... expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew. — Walter Truett Anderson

It's OK to have wealth. But keep it in your hands, not in your heart. — S. Truett Cathy

If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger. — S. Truett Cathy

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck. — George W Truett

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships. — S. Truett Cathy

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. — S. Truett Cathy

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

As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible. — S. Truett Cathy

It's better to build boys than mend men. — S. Truett Cathy

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

We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain. — Walter Truett Anderson

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

Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle. — George W Truett

We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well. — S. Truett Cathy

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust. — S. Truett Cathy

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

One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life. — Walter Truett Anderson

In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right. — S. Truett Cathy

If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others. — S. Truett Cathy

Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food. — S. Truett Cathy