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

-- J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

“Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.”
“Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"”
“Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?”
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
“The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.”
“A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?”
“Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.”
“So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out â€“ out of earshot, out of the house â€“ even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.”

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