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Quotes About Hospitality

Since the very beginning, we wanted to create an experience for our guests: more than just a place to sleep. We wanted to cook breakfast in the morning; we wanted to provide a subway map for our guests. Pick them up from the airport.
~ Joe Gebbia
Guests bring good luck with them.
~ Turkish proverb
Every American must feel a thrill of pride and gratitude in the thought that his country is the refuge of the oppressed, . . . and however wretched be the material offered to him from the refuse of other nations, he accepts it with generous hospitality.
~ Unknown
It's still not tea without a samovar. Just water, that's all.
~ Unknown
That looks nice." said Kit. "The toast does, too." "Just some tricks I've learned," Mother said. "Cutting the toast in triangles makes it look like there's more than there really is. And I'm hoping the peach slices will distract our guests from the fact that we've had oatmeal four times this week already. But it's cheap, and it's filling.
~ Valerie Tripp
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
~ Vance Havner
There is no hospitality like understanding.
~ Vanna Bonta
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
~ Vera Nazarian
We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
~ Victor Garber
To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
There is beauty in feeding others when you are spiritually or physically hungry yourself.
~ Unknown
Italy will always have the best food.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
~ Karen McDougal
After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.
~ Frances Mayes
Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
~ J. Willard Marriott
We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.
~ Howard Schultz
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We're in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.
~ Colleen Barrett
A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
~ Shelley Berman
The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.
~ Jose Andres
Cater to your customers' lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of "I belong here.
~ Marilyn Suttle
friendly people serving friendly people
~ Unknown
At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.
~ Letitia Baldrige
You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
~ Harvey Mackay