Conrad Hilton Quotations

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.

In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense.

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.

It always started with a dream.

Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. ...

To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams.

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

To achieve big things you have to have big dreams.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

Success in never final; failure is never fatal

There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.