Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.
Interpretation
Success requires hard work and integrity, especially in different cultural contexts.
This quote highlights the contrast between perceptions of success in the United States and China. It emphasizes that in China, success is not handed to individuals; instead, it must be earned through effort and moral integrity, suggesting a deeper understanding and respect for the values of hard work and ethics in achieving one's goals.
In practice
During a motivational talk about cultural differences in work ethics.
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.
Itβs not that I want money. Itβs the fun of making money and watching it grow.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.
Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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