82 Quotes by S. Truett Cathy

If you really aren’t interested in serving others, you don’t need to be in the restaurant business in the first place.

If we get better, our customers will demand we get bigger.

Sometimes, but not often, I am thoroughly convinced that the decision I have made is the right one, even though it differs from the others, and I will exercise my authority to approve or reject a decision against their wishes. In most cases, though, if we can’t agree on something, a better idea is to table the decision rather than to exercise the power.

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

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

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

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?'

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

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