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Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
Howard Schultz
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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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