Conrad Nicholson Hilton (1926-1969)

Hilton had faced with some failures before he became the most successful hotels’ magnate.  Actually, His major was engineering, but never working in this sphere he preferred to do some crook business, that gave him only bad experience. Anything that he started at the end gave him nothing.

In spite of this Hilton was very business acumen which means he knew how to make money. Conrad showed his talent when he was a child while working in his fathers’ grocery.

As a brilliant person he wanted something better for himself, he knew that he will be successful businessman .

He was 31 years old when he became a milliner and when everybody remembered his name “HILTON”. In 1919 he bought his first hotel, which was in very poor and bad condition with ridiculous design. Actually it quite difficult to call it hotel, but as a entrepreneur, he made that hotel profitable.

Conrad said:” Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”

He was inspired by his first success experience which gave him his hotel. He forgot about banking, he deeply swam in to hotel business. The first Hilton Hotel launched in 1925 at Dallas city.

Famous celebrities, Hilton's great granddauthers
Paris and Nicky Hilton. 

During the 1950s and 1960s, Hilton Hotels' worldwide expansion facilitated both American tourism and overseas business by American corporations. At the same time, it promulgated a certain worldwide standard for hotel accommodations. It was the world's first international hotel chain. In all, Hilton eventually owned 188 hotels in thirty-eight cities in the U.S.

By the 1960s the company reorganized its foreign operations, going into partnership with outside corporations and foreign governments. Many Hilton hotels became franchises or were only partially owned by the Hilton chain. Conrad Hilton was succeeded as president of the corporation by his son Barron in 1966.

One of the Hilton's ex wives Elizabeth Taylor.Wedding 1950.

Nowadays the owner of huge corporation has more than hundred hotels among the world. His success as the number of his hotels increase annually. This is obviously one of the examples that shows how entrepreneur is able to achieve success with the help of intellect and motivation.

 “I Know when I have a problem and have done all I can: Thinking, figuring, planning, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence until something clicks and I feel a right answer.” Hilton said.