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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?'

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

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.

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.

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