Colonel Sanders | Businessman

Colonel Harland Sanders found himself laid off from a variety of jobs before he decided to start cooking chicken in a roadside Shell Service Station in 1930. He was already 40 years old, and it was a terrible time to be unemployed during the Great Depression. Interestingly, his gas station wasn’t a restaurant, so he had to serve diners in his personal living quarters.

Over the next decade, Sanders continued to painstakingly work on his “secret recipe.” Eventually, he discovered a method that involved pressure frying the chicken. Then, the famous KFC fried chicken was born, and it became the fast-food giant that we all know today. You could say that his efforts to continue to perfect his recipe were an excellent move in itself. Today, KFC is a billion-dollar business, and it wouldn’t have been born without Sander’s vision.