Father of modern hotel dead -Conservative with Strong Work Ethic get Rich DURING The Depression.

CNN ^ | February 13, 2003 | CNN

[Kay Soze]

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) --Kemmons Wilson, who founded the Holiday Inn chain of hotels and revolutionized the industry by bringing affordable and comfortable lodging to millions of travelers, has died at the age of 90.

Wilson died at home Wednesday, but a cause was not immediately determined.

[Kay Soze]

WOW what a succes story.

How can a liberal news orginization print such a thing?

He did all this with the government and started during the greatest economic " downturn" in world history!

This story will really upset Daschel and ther where's my Check crowd!

[Kay Soze]

He Did all this WITHOUT the governments help.

[xJones]

Thanks for posting this article. It's a very good read.

[canuck_conservative]

Here's the list. Common-sense and very inspirirational!

Kemmons Wilson's Twenty Tips For Success

o Work only a half a day; it makes no difference which half - it can be either the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

o Work is the master key that opens the door to all opportunities.

o Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person's success or failure than mental capacity.

o Remember that we all climb the ladder of success one step at a time.

o There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree. One way is to sit on an acorn and wait; the other way is to climb it.

o Do not be afraid of taking a chance. Remember that a broken watch is exactly right at least twice every 24 hours.

o The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

o Eliminate from your vocabulary the words, "I don't think I can" and substitute, "I know I can."

o In evaluating a career, put opportunity ahead of security.

o Remember that success requires half luck and half brains.

o A person has to take risks to achieve.

o People who take pains never to do more than they get paid for, never get paid for anything more than they do.

o No job is too hard as long as you are smart enough to find someone else to do it for you.

o Opportunity comes often. It knocks as often as you have an ear trained to hear it, and eye trained to see it, a hand trained to grasp it, and a head trained to use it.

o You cannot procrastinate - in two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

o Sell your wristwatch and buy an alarm clock.

o A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

o Do not worry. You can't change the past, but you sure can ruin the present by worrying over the future. Remember that half the things we worry about never happen, and the other half are going to happen anyway. So, why worry?

o It is not how much you have but how much you enjoy that makes happiness.

o Believe in God and obey the Ten Commandments.

[LS]

I featured him in a section of my book, "The Entrepreneurial Adventue: A History of Business in the United States." I saw him on Merv Griffen years ago and was impressed with him then. He said, "If you're in it for the money, you won't be a success. You have to love what you do."

[wardaddy]

Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours."

I like that.

Helluva man.

[razorback-bert]

A good man.

Mr Wilson was a dinner guest at my parents house on occasions, he had raised the money for his first Holiday Inn from Delta planters and forgot those people.

My last time in Greenville, Mississippi, I stayed in a Paki motel, then realized that I was staying in the third Holiday Inn built and the first of the modern design.

He may have built them for families, but us road warriors of the 1960-70's loved them for the clean rooms and safe food in the restraunts.

[razorback-bert]

forgot to ping to the above

[razorback-bert]

Posting with a cold leads to things like this:

from Delta planters and never forgot those people.

[dennisw]

btgtttttttttttttttt

[Question_Assumptions]

Of course liberals think that the government should now swoop in and take his money, via inheritence tax, because they deserve it more than his heirs do...