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“But my story is as much one of perseverance and drive as it is of talent and luck. I willed it to happen. I took my life in my hands, learned from anyone I could, grabbed what opportunity I could, and molded my success step by step. Fear of failure drove me at first, but as I tackled each challenge, my anxiety was replaced by a growing sense of optimism. Once you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, other hurdles become less daunting.”
― Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
― Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail”
― Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
― Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.”
― The Dream of Scipio
― The Dream of Scipio
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don't put in the time or energy to get there.”
― The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
― The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, . . . begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. —GOETHE”
― Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
― Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
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