Marriott Quotes & Sayings

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let's play poker, we had a full team of adults right there. — Julia Marriott

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.

Andrew this is where you take all your dates ... "
"And?"
My heart sank. "Do you not see why bringing me here would hurt my feelings?"
"Would you prefer the Marriott? — Whitney Gracia Williams

Your heart is beating so fast," he said softly, the words barely more than a whisper. "I can feel your blood humming under my hand. Are you frightened of me? — Zoe Marriott

By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life. — Neill F. Marriott

We must help young women immerse themselves in a selfless work, perhaps receiving little public praise or attention. Instead, they must feel the Lord's great love for them and their efforts through the influence of the Holy Ghost. — Neill F. Marriott

They say it's always darkest before the dawn and it was pitch black by the time I arrived at the Marriott. However I still had a few bullets left for my deadbeat uncle that tried to stab me in the back. — Angel Ramon Medina

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

The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band. — Ian McLagan

Real love is hard because it requires one to know and accept another person with all their faults. — Zoe Marriott

Don't listen to what they say. Go see. - Chinese proverb — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

No one knows me. Not anymore — Zoe 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

It may seem strange to you, but there are no such creatures in Athazie. There is an animal-a very large animal-that lives on the plains and is much the same shape. We call it gadahama. The golden hunter. He does not say meep, meep as these tiny ones do. His voice is like this.' He drew in a deep breath, then let out a deafening roar. The cats fled in all directions at once as they scrambled away. — Zoe Marriott

I've learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I've learned is that you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head. — Zoe Marriott

I don't want you because I expect you to swoop in and rescue me and make everything all right.I don't want you because you're beautiful. None of that matters. you could never be a bad bargain to me, because ... you're you.
And I love you. — Zoe Marriott

Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought. — Zoe Marriott

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

Love comes like storm clouds
Fleeing from the wind, and casts
Shadows on the moon. — Zoe Marriott

I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too. — Zoe Marriott

My first memory is of the smell of sunwarmed earth. — Zoe Marriott

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

I never knew my mother's name. — Zoe Marriott

I lit a Camel, blew smoke through my nose and looked at a piece of black shiny metal on a stand. It showed a full, smooth curve with a shallow fold in it and two protuberances on the curve. I stared at it. Marriott saw me staring at it. "An interesting bit," he said negligently. "I picked it up just the other day. Asta Dial's Spirit of Dawn." "I thought it was Klopstein's Two Warts on a Fanny," I said. Mr. Lindsay Marriott's face looked as if he had swallowed a bee. He smoothed it out with an effort. — Raymond Chandler

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

When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him. — Neill F. Marriott

To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans — Zoe Marriott

I may have a potty mouth, but I do not get caught in illicit sexual encounters in Marriotts, for fuck's sake. I guess I could be open to a Ritz-Carlton or a Four Seasons, but a Marriott, no fucking way! Yet here I am. And there's nowhere else I'd rather be. What spell has this boy cast on me? I — Rachel Cohn

If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them. — W.K. Marriott

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about. — Steve Marriott

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. — Zoe Marriott

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there. — Mark Ronson

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

Trusting anyone can get you killed. — Zoe Marriott

We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it. — Neill F. Marriott

It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after first burying the money under a bush. — Raymond Chandler

With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world. — Neill F. Marriott

Why does it hurt so much? Why does it have to hurt? — Zoe Marriott

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there — Zoe Marriott

And he will kiss me again, I thought, almost dizzy at the wonder of it. He will kiss me a thousand times more, and in a thousand ways. — Zoe Marriott

Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be
and are ruined. — W.K. Marriott

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

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame. — W.K. Marriott

The dim grass stirs with your footstep,
The blue dusk throbs with your smile;
I and the world of glory
Are one for a little while.
* * * * *
The spring sun shows me your shadow,
The spring wind bears me your breath,
You are mine for a passing moment,
But I am yours to the death. — Rosamund Marriott Watson

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.

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again. — Steve Marriott

I thought then that you were the bravest girl I'd ever met, and nothing that's happened since has changed my mind. — Zoe Marriott

All humans are made, in essence, of starstuff, and I sometimes wonder if the starstuff still calls out to us. — Zoe Marriott

Going by Dr. Marriott's description, Zoe imagined it to be small and elegant as she peered into dozens of shelves, rummaging through the contents. There were globes and charts and atlases, pocket watches and hand-painted Indian silk, gold-plated cutlery, litter coffers of spice, inlaid combs, silver fasteners, trinket boxes, blown-glass figurines, turn-of-the-century postcards with foreign stamps, and portraits of Victorian authors in elaborate frames. But nowhere did she discover a stone of any kind, with or without runes. — Christine Brodien-Jones

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could? — Zoe 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

Zoe had dressed up for their meeting with Dr. Marriott in a long Indian skirt stitched with beads and tiny mirrors, a T-shirt embossed with CAT WOMAN STRIKES AGAIN! and a short-sleeved pink hoodie. To top it off, she wore a bracelet made from typewriter keys. She was sure Dr. Marriott would love it, seeing as typewriters were right up his alley. — Christine Brodien-Jones

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

It is not like that. I am not punishing myself. The cutting makes me feel better." "Hurting — Zoe Marriott

I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me. — Zoe Marriott

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.

I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city. — Richard Rodriguez

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

Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

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

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages. — Steve Marriott

Unless you're honest, you won't know that the love is true. It's easy to say I love you, much harder to say I'd never lie to you. — Blanche Marriott

Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you. — Neill F. Marriott

It's as if people
normal people
are made of silver. Shiny to start with, but tarnished by time, by ill-treatment. Luca ... Luca is gold. Nothing in the world could ever make him shine less brightly. — Zoe Marriott

Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates. — Neill F. Marriott

A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that pre-dominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power. — W.K. Marriott

I just take dictation for the voices in my head. — D.L. Marriott

Out in the wide readership,his younger brother was kicking an ice bucket in the woods behind the Marriott,
his younger brother who was missing that part of the brain that allows you to make out with your pillow.
Poor kid. — David Berman

You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth. — Zoe Marriott

Everyone of you right now is valuable and essential ... — Neill F. Marriott

The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy. — Shashi Tharoor

I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur. — Ted Haggard

10 years is nature's 9 months for business babies. — Thomas Marriott

I've been in darkness nearly all my life, and you brought light into my existance for the first time. And maybe that's why I started to ... have feeling for you. You seemed like a dream. [ ... ] But that's just infatuation. Hero worship. It's not real. I've learned a lot about love in these last months. Abd part of what I've learned is you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head. Neither of us could have lived that way. — Zoe Marriott

How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me. — Zoe Marriott

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

Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'
A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard. — Zoe Marriott

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

When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right. — Steve Marriott

It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both. — W.K. Marriott

On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us. — Zoe Marriott

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

Laughing, the man replied, "I've been following you, you've been following the pilgrims in front of you, and they've been following in the footsteps of a million more pilgrims before them. — Stephen Marriott

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself. — Val Guest

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it. — W.K. Marriott

Those who by valorous ways become princes ... acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease. — W.K. Marriott

If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement. — Neill F. Marriott

How do we make the Lord's ways our ways? I believe we begin by learning of Him and praying for understanding. — Neill F. Marriott