J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr. quotes

“Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.”
-- J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

#Culture Quotes #Care Quotes #Winner Quotes

“Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.”
-- J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

#Ninety Quotes

“Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.”
-- J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

Source : "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

#Summer Quotes #Country Quotes #Children Quotes

“The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.”
-- J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“If customers are treated right, they'll come back.”
-- J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

#Inspiration Quotes #Treated Quotes

“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”

“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”

“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!”

“When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.”

“And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want”

“Care for him who shall have borne the battle”

“There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.”

“History is written by winners.”

“If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.”

“If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.”