J. Willard Marriott Quotes & Sayings

#1. No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week.

#2. Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.

#3. No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.

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#4. Take care of your people and they will take care of your customers.

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#5. Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.

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#6. Celebrate your people's success, not your own.

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#7. Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

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#8. Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

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#9. See and be seen. Get out of your office, walk around, make yourself visible and accessible.

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#10. Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.

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#11. View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

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#12. Success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

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#13. A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it's tough. But that's what I'm going to do.

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#14. It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

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