Details the story of Bill Marriott's first job in his family's root beer stand to his monumental decisions in building a hotel empire.
The Marriott Corporation is the largest global hotel chain in the world, twice as large as the second, Hilton, with double the number of properties.
Bill's father, who lived through the Great Depression, had a great fear of risk and debt and opposed many of the daring business decisions Bill made in building the Marriott empire.
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While his father was a constant roadblock, his mother had a quite different effect. Without her things would not have turned out as well for the Marriott family: "I certainly was not always right, nor was I ever as wrong as my father believed I was.
My mother was a great referee, mediating and softening the blows. And my wife was always beside me to pick me up, dust me off, and send me back into the ring again. I could never have been successful without the love and support of these two great women