Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and the entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager, and the clerk.
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Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman. He is executive chairman of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Square, Inc. In 1998, Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, with Dan Levitan. In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked Schultz as the 595th richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $2.9 Billion as of September 2016. On December 1, 2016, Schultz announced his resignation as CEO of Starbucks, effective April 2017. He will become executive chairman, with Kevin Johnson to become CEO. 2Early life and education Schultz was born to a Jewish family on July 19, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of ex-United States Army trooper and then truck driver Fred Schultz, and his wife, Elaine (Lederman). With his younger sister, Ronnie, and brother, Michael, he grew up in the Canarsie Bayview Houses of the New York City Housing Authority. As Schultz's family was poor, he saw an escape in sports such as baseball, football, and basketball, as well as the Boys and Girls Club. He went to Canarsie High School, from which he graduated in 197
No business can do well for its shareholders without first doing well by all the people its business touches.
Success is not sustainable if it's defined by how big you become.
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is the right and…
I grew up in the poor projects of Brooklyn, New York, paid my way through college, and moved to Seattle, Washington, with my wife, Sheri, to take a job as head of marketing for a small coffee company called Starbucks. I spent my first weeks working at the Pike Place store, learning all about coffee,…
Honest communication, even when it stings emotionally, is the root of productive problem solving.
None of us exists in isolation. Healthy, happy communities rely on the interdependence of their members. We are in this together.
When I opened my first espresso bars, I wanted to create places where people could escape the chaos of the day and feel a sense of belonging.
Behind my suit, tie, and friendliness, I was a young businessman haunted by the anxiety of a childhood steeped in financial insecurity.
The will and ability to reimagine the future is at the heart of this country’s beginning, as well as a concept that crept into my consciousness when I was just a boy.
We are living in a society where there is a need for human connection and a sense of community. And what we do every day is bring people together.
Unfortunately, we live in a sea of mediocrity in all walks of life.
The rules of engagement in traditional marketing are over. Whether you are creating a brand, building one, or running a big one, you’d better understand social media, because there is a seismic shift in how people are gaining access to information and, as a result, how they are behaving.
More often than not I’ve taken the road less traveled.
Success is very shallow if it doesn’t have emotional meaning.
You have to have a 100% belief in your core reason for being.
You have to be willing to fight for what you believe in.
You have to be authentic, you have to be true, and you have to believe in your heart that this is going to work.
I do believe there are common-sense solutions on both sides of the aisle if people would come together and remove their self interest and their ideology and recognize that they’ve been elected to represent all of America, not their individual constituency. It’s just a shame that we’re in a situation…
I do believe in the kindness and the goodness and the compassion and the empathy of the American people.…I don’t have a panacea of how to get there, but I know one thing: The current state of affairs, the crisis in our democracy is not who we are, and I know we’re better than this.