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.
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.
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life.
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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