Bill Marriott Sayings

#1. Don't listen to what they say. Go see. - Chinese proverb

J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

#2. I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.

Mark Leibovich

#3. And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. 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.

#5. Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

Paul Levine

#6. Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Holly Black

#7. Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.

J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

#8. To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. It was like being in an exciting movie, except I didn't know whether it was a romance or a comedy.

Louise Rennison

#10. To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Paul Valery

#11. Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. However, the majority of people mistakenly judge external things to be 'good' and therefore experience feelings of desire for things beyond their control, leading to frustration and suffering.

Don Robertson

#13. 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.

#14. If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer.

William Meikle