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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

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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Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.
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While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!
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Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.
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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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Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.
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People in Washington need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.
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In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.
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Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.
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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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