You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
Interpretation
Finding what you love requires dedication and sacrifice.
This quote emphasizes the importance of discovering a passion that resonates deeply with you. It suggests that true fulfillment comes from pursuing what you love, even if it demands significant sacrifices along the way. Howard Schultz implies that dedication to one's passion can lead to success and personal satisfaction.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire a group of students about future careers.
The rules of engagement around building a brand have changed significantly over the past 10 to 15 years. Where companies at one time could spread their message through traditional marketing, consumers now seek an enduring emotional connection with the companies they patronize. The foundation of that connection is the most important characteristic of building a world-class brand: trust. Trust with your people and trust with your customers.
The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.
Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.
While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!
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.
When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.
You could be great, you know, itβs all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines
Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
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