Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Be My Guest by Conrad N. Hilton Be my guest conrad hilton free pdf. I picked up this book in a Hilton hotel room years ago. I finally decided to read it and am so glad that I did. This book is a keeper! Im shocked that I havent heard anyone rave about it before! Conrad Hilton was a man of conviction, and integrity. His story is an exquisite example of living to ones potential, of operating out of a spirit of abundance, of the importance of having a dream and of being faithful to that dream. Its also a story about the power of prayer. The interesting story and character of the man who wrote the book are not the only reasons that I liked this book so much. I also liked it because it had a nice pace, details, and it flowed well. I looked forward to every chapter and every page and frankly, I am a little sad that I finished it. Im about to get corny on you here. I felt like Connie ( as he was called ) was my friend, or perhaps an uncle. He poured into me all kinds of wisdom through the pages that chronicled his life and I am thankful that he wrote this book. I was going to list a few kinds of people who should read this book, but then I hit delete because I realized that EVERYONE should read this book. Its a great piece of personal development. The Hiltons: Success Story of an American Dynasty. Be My Guest. In this article we will tell you a story about Conrad Hilton biography and the success story of his business. Enjoy reading the story about innovations, trials, failures and success. Conrad Hilton was one of the first persons who introduced into this business star hotel rating system. In addition, he managed to combine hotels with restaurants and casinos. The story of how the legend was born hospitality. Thank you! This autobiography, in spite of two previous biographies, emphasizes anew the achievement of a big dream and the American success story, for Hilton, although not exactly from rags, did go to great riches. It is not the financial that is the dominant note, it is the love affair with hotels, once he had found his vocation, that colors his story. For, after his early jobs in New Mexico, his fling in politics, banking, and his World War I career, he found his first ""dowager"" that needed face-lifting and attention, and from then on he was committed to the life of an innkeeper. From reviving run-down hostelries came the need to build one of his own, then one a year and finally to expand -- from coast to coast, eventually from ocean to ocean This is his story of how he stalked the titled and famous -- the Drake, the Stevens, the Roosevelt, the Plaza and his long desired, the Waldorf; his mistakes and disasters, his period of ""going broke by inches""; his money making money; the buying groups; the acquisition of the Statler system, his foreign projects. Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Finding libraries that hold this item You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway. WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. Don't have an account? See a Problem? Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Post a Comment. Share a book review on Shelfari, where this reader meets fellow readers. Welcome to The Epic! I am launching this blog as a manifesto for and a guide to living well. The title and motto of the blog are taken from the Epicureans, at least some of whom believed in the notion that not one minute of the future was guaranteed to them and that as a result they had the duty to live life to its fullest every moment. I believe in discovering fun and pleasurable things wherever I find myself each day and I am told I have a knack for unearthing them. My hope is that by sharing in my pleasures and some of my ways of finding them you will begin to collect all the riches that lie in the moments of your life. Be My Guest. Be My Guest is the inspiring saga of the man behind one of America's great success stories. Conrad Hilton was born in San Antonio, Socorro County, Territory of New Mexico. Born into a family of six, including two sisters named Felice and Eva; a brother, Carl; his mother, Mary Laufersweiler Hilton; and his father, named Augustus Holver Hilton, or Gus. His father was a big man physically - a robust six footer with big hands, big feet, a handlebar mustache, and a big voice. Gus bought his first hotel in Cisco, Texas, and built his first hotel in Dallas, Texas. Then he bought his second hotel, the famous Waldorf Astoria in New York, in 1931, which became a Hilton Hotel 15 years later. This had been Gus' first big dream, and he worked hard to make it a reality, suffering heartbreak and struggling against the odds - over this infinitesimal building in the middle of nowhere - more than at any other time in his career, barring the Depression. Conrad Hilton went to Goss Military Institute in Albuquerque when he was almost 12. At 15 he met his wife, Helen Keller. She has written a book called Optimism. In the book, she wrote, "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope," and summed up by stating that, "Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit and the spirit of God pronouncing [his] works good." At 16 his father had sold his coal mines for $10 thousand, which in those days made him one of the richest men in the territory. In 1904 the dollar was worth something. Men worked for a dollar a day and, on that, lived decently and raised families of five or six. With his money Gus was the equivalent of a millionaire. Be My Guest by Conrad Hilton. Paperback. Condition: POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. BE MY GUEST. Hilton, Conrad. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. ------The inspiring saga of the man behind one of America's great success stories. . . BE MY GUEST. Hilton, Conrad. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. ------The inspiring saga of the man behind one of America's great success stories. . . Be My Guest. Conrad Hilton. Published by Simon & Schuster. Used - Softcover Condition: GOOD. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Be My Guest. Hilton, Conrad. Published by No publisher, book number or price on book, c.1957 by Prentice-Hall., 1957. Used - Softcover Condition: Strong VG. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Strong VG. 288 pages. Photo of Hilton on front cover, 16 pages of black/white photos. Autobiography - the story of his spectacular rise to the top of the business world. Square, solid, unmarked copy with off-white inside covers, pages are tanned, upper back cover corner crease, and small creases to upper corner of last ten pages. A free copy which was placed in the rooms of Hilton Hotels. Be My Guest by Conrad Hilton (1984, Perfect) С самой низкой ценой, совершенно новый, неиспользованный, неоткрытый, неповрежденный товар в оригинальной упаковке (если товар поставляется в упаковке). Упаковка должна быть такой же, как упаковка этого товара в розничных магазинах, за исключением тех случаев, когда товар является изделием ручной работы или был упакован производителем в упаковку не для розничной продажи, например в коробку без маркировки или в пластиковый пакет. См. подробные сведения с дополнительным описанием товара. Conrad Hilton Biography: The History of Hilton Hotels Corporation. In this article we will tell you a story about Conrad Hilton biography and the success story of his business. It was the man who changed a usual view on running hotel business and only in the United States, but also almost in every country around globe. Enjoy reading the story about innovations, trials, failures and success. Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American hotelier who founded the Hilton Hotels chain. Conrad Hilton was one of the first persons who introduced into this business 1-5 star hotel rating system. In addition, he managed to combine hotels with restaurants and casinos. The story of how the legend was born hospitality. This is a story about how the hospitality business was born. Conrad Hilton was born on December 25, 1887. He was the eighth child in the family. His father, August Hilton, ran a small business – a grocery store. We can not say that the store were bringing a lot of money, but the family did not starve and Conrad successfully received a higher education in the Mining Institute. He was an engineer by profession, but it did not attract him much. Since childhood Conrad Hilton wanted to become a bank manager. He saw himself among the people who were tossing millions of dollars. But the war came. In 1917, Conrad went as a volunteer in the army. Eighteen months later, he returned back home and found out that his father had died in a car accident. Conrad had to take care of his future on his own. However, it was not so easy to start the business, which he was dreaming about. Conrad Hilton suffered one failure after another. When he was 31, his first bank went bankrupt, which lasted less than a year. The young man had a purse of 5000 dollars at that time and a head filled with dreams of banking. But Hilton was not destined to run a banking business. Having arrived in Cisco (TX), 31-year-old Hilton stayed at nondescript Mobley Hotel. Young entrepreneur immediately noticed queue that lined up, hoping to get a room. But there were no available rooms and the owner was so tired of the work and did not even plan to expand. Customer had to go looking for a place to sleep in the other hotels. The owner just wanted to retire. It was one of those situations when a person is at the right time and in the right place (the same thing happened with Ray Kroc, when he entered to the McDonald brothers’ restaurant). The Mobley Hotel. Having bought Mobley, Conrad began to improve the hotel. For a start he equipped the hotel with a large number of rooms thereby eliminating future queues. Then he came up with idea that he could earn more on guests by offering them some additional services and products that would entertain them (at that time most of the hotels were like boring coaching inns). Thus Conrad decided to place small shop windows in the lobby around the columns which featured a variety of daily consumption items (newspapers, magazines, razors, toothbrushes and toothpastes). Conrad later remarked that one shop window brought him $8,000 dollars a month. Conrad Hilton’s family was very surprised of his success, who had already considered him a loser after all his failures in the banking business. However, a year later after the purchase of Mobley Hotel, Conrad purchased his second hotel in Fort North and then some more. In 1924, Conrad Hilton became the owner of 350 guest rooms. He went up to the time when finances allowed to build his own hotel. And after a year, in 1925, there was a stunning opening (at the time) of Dallas Hilton Hotel, that had 300 rooms. A year later the 38-year-old entrepreneur finally got married to Mary Adelaide Barron. They married in 1925 and after nine years of living together they divorced in 1934. It was a good time given that the Dallas Hilton was the first hotel, which bore the name of the founder of the company. However there was no time to relax. Three years after there was the economic crisis. It hit hard the hotel business: people simply started travelling less and business travels declined. By the beginning of the 30s 80% of the United States hotel companies were ruined. Conrad Hilton was forced to sell his business. However hotel business was not the best option at those times and the owners of Hilton Hotels by the end of the Great Depression hired Conrad as a manager of hotels chain and even wanted to sell him the hotel business back. In 1942, Conrad got married the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. They were living together till 1946. Conrad Hilton and Zsa Zsa Gabor had a daughter, Constance Francesca Hilton who was born in 1947. Dallas Hilton Hotel. After few years, gradually Conrad Hilton regained his business. He redeemed hotels one by one. In 1949 he acquired one of the most luxurious hotels in New York – Waldorf-Astoria and opened his first hotel outside the U.S, in Puerto Rico. In 1954, Conrad Hilton shocked the financial world, having made the largest deal in the history of America. He purchased Statler Hotels company for $ 111,000,000 that was the main competitor to Hilton. Such acquisitions were possible for Conrad Hilton, because in 1946 his company went public, thereby obtaining additional capital injections from outside investors. It is worth mentioning that there were already two companies in the hands of Conrad by that time: Hilton Hotels that was targeted to the United States and Hilton International – dedicated to the international business development. Hilton Hotels started to attract more and more guests. Company’s success they explained simply: rich people such as businessmen, royal personages or show business stars required unobtrusive comfort as ordinary members of the middle class. This was a major luxury. It was the fact which began to attract as well as millionaires, movie stars and ordinary middle class. They all liked staying at Hilton Hotels. But one thing is to talk about unobtrusive comfort and quite another thing is to provide it. What was done to it? First, nobody before had placed small shop windows in the hotel’s lobbies like it was done in Hilton Hotels. Second, nobody before had equipped its rooms with air conditioning, entrance doors with automatic control, alarm clocks and telephones that included such feature, as a direct dialing (no need to call the reception and ask to be connected with a certain telephone number). Third, Hilton Hotels were built close to airports and seaports, thereby offering travelers special packages (round-off). Forth, there was a special reward system for guests called Hilton Honors. “Be My Guest”, Conrad Hilton. In 1966, Conrad Hilton departs from works by passing control of the hotels chain to his son – Barron Hilton. At that time, the famous hotelier (that’s how he liked to call himself, after hearing a French word – ‘hôtelier’) wrote his autobiography “Be My Guest”. Mary Frances Kelly was another wife of hotelier. They got married in 1976. Then he founded the Hilton Foundation charity and bequeathed all his property to it after his death in 1979, in Dallas, where he built his first Hilton Hotel. But the story does not end there. Barron Hilton managed to win back the right to the inheritance from his father charity. It took about 9 years to do that (Conrad had 8 children and 100 grandchildren). It should be said that his son managed quite well hotel business and made several key changes to the Hilton Hotels corporation. First, the company moved to a franchise model. The truth is this model was introduced by Conrad himself, but to bring it to the work was done by the son. Second, in 1973, the company implemented a remote reference system, called Hiltron. The client had dial a hot line number, and he was getting all the interesting information from the talking robot, including the availability of the hotel rooms. In 1999, the system was replaced with a more powerful – Hilstar, which took into account capabilities of global Internet. In general when it comes about information technology, the Hilton Hotel network introduces them much faster than its competitors. Besides, it is worth noting one more fact in the history of the Hilton Hotels: merging hotels and casinos. The first casino hotel appeared in the late 60’s, under the guidance of Conrad Hilton in Las Vegas. It was one of the most controversial steps in the history of the company. But it showed its worth in 1987 when Ladbroke Group acquired Hilton International , whose main business was gambling. In the XXI century, there were circumstances that the hotel business brought them nothing but losses. But gambling business, managed not only to be profitable, but also to cover the losses of the hotel company. In 2007, an investment group Blackstone, led by Stephen Schwarzman, bought out the entire Hilton family hotel business for $ 26 billion dollars. And went to pay off debts of the company that reached $ 7.5 billion. P.S. The book, “Be My Guest,” written by Conrad Hilton, is still kind of Bible for all hotels. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading Conrad Hilton biography and it’s inspired you to new discoveries. Cite This Article. APA Style Conrad Hilton Biography: The History of Hilton Hotels Corporation. ( ). Astrum People website. 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