J. Willard Marriott Quotes & Sayings

Celebrate your people's success, not your own. — J. Willard Marriott

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. — J. Willard Marriott

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up. — J. Willard Marriott

Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back. — J. Willard Marriott

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business. — J. Willard Marriott

No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week. — J. Willard Marriott

View the problem as an opportunity to grow. — J. Willard Marriott

Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors. — J. Willard Marriott

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees — J. Willard Marriott

I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete. — J. Willard Marriott

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. — J. Willard Marriott

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. — J. Willard Marriott

Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action — J. Willard Marriott

It's more important to hire people with the right qualities than with specific experience. — J. Willard Marriott

Take care of your people and they will take care of your customers. — J. Willard Marriott

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. — J. Willard Marriott

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. — J. Willard Marriott

See and be seen. Get out of your office, walk around, make yourself visible and accessible. — J. Willard Marriott

Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does. — J. Willard Marriott