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One stormy night many years ago, a man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia. The couple met a friendly clerk and asked 'if they could get a room for the night to escape the storm. The clerk explained: "all our rooms are taken, bcoz there are three...
...conventions in town. But I can't send a lovely couple like you back in the rain at 1am. Would you perhaps be willing to sleep in my room?" When the couple declined, the young man assured them: "don't worry about me, I'll be just fine." So they agreed. The next morning,...
...as he paid his bill, the man said to the clerk: "you are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel in the United States, maybe one day I'll build one for you."
Two years passed, the clerk had almost forgotten the incident when he received an invitation...
Two years passed, the clerk had almost forgotten the incident when he received an invitation...
...from the couple to visit New York. Enclosed was a round-trip ticket. Upon his arrival, the man took him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street; pointing at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, he said: "this is the structure I have built for you to manage. The man himself was...
William Waldorf Astor, and the young clerk who became it's first manager was George C. Boldt.
"No one has ever become poor by giving."~Anne Frank
"No one has ever become poor by giving."~Anne Frank
