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I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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Howard D. Schultz
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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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I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.
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We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.
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Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.
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The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.
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What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.
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When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
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My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
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I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
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While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!
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