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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

Howard Schultz

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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Brooklyn
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Howard D. Schultz
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Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.
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To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
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On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
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Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after youve done that, dream bigger.
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