If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.
Interpretation
Passion and enthusiasm are crucial for success, especially when faced with challenges.
This quote emphasizes the importance of having a deep love and passion for what you do. Howard Schultz suggests that without this enthusiasm, you are likely to struggle and fail when encountering difficulties or obstacles in your path. Genuine passion fuels persistence and resilience, making it easier to overcome challenges and ultimately achieve success.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech at a career development workshop.
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.
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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
In every failure is the seed of success... _x000D_ Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.
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