Be My Guest
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0130715980 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 153 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Be My Guest
ambition, without greed, pays off Kurt I got my copy of BE MY GUEST at an old book sale at the public library. It's a wonderful book, and I'm glad to hear that even in the late 1990s it was still being distributed at Hilton hotels. This book chronicles the business endeavors of Conrad N. Hilton from his aspirations to own his own bank in the pre-WWI years through his first hotels in Texas and New Mexico in the early '20s to his crowning glory--the purchase of the opulent Waldorf-Astoria hotel in NYC around 1950. What makes this book interesting and useful is the quality of the man, not the strength . Should be standard reading for entrepreneurial success; a timeless classic Craig Rowland I picked up Be My Guest by Conrad Hilton when I stayed at the Milwaukee Hilton several years ago. Guests of Hilton hotels in addition to finding the standard free soap and shampoo also receive a complimentary copy of Hilton's memoir, originally written in 1957. I started reading Be My Guest while aboard S. A. Agulhas II en route from Cape Town, South Africa to Tristan da Cunha. I finished the book on board and while I wanted to leave it in the ship's library when I had finished it, the lack of Internet on board, both on my way to Tristan as well as coming back,. "Old 'classic' book, a very nice read" according to Mista R O'Regan. Hi guys,I read this book because Dan Kennedy mentioned it in one of his marketing booksIt is a rags to riches story about Conrad Hilton, the guy who started Hilton hotels as we know it.(This is before the days of Paris Hilton, Conrad was not born into money & fame!)I was expecting to learn about entrepreneurial skills which I did a little, but I got more out of this book than I was expecting I got a cultural history lesson and an ethics lesson !It was written in 1957 and covered Conrad's life in older times still, he talks about his parents, before the 1st worl