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Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“Whatever you do, don’t play it safe,” wrote Howard Schultz, the chairman and CEO of Starbucks Coffee, in his book Pour Your Heart into It.3 “Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.”
Robbie Kellman Baxter • The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue
Successful people make it their business to be conscious of what and who matter most. Their actions flow from their values. They strive to do what they can to make things better for the people who depend on them and on whom they depend, in all the different parts of their lives.
Stewart Friedman • Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
Where did the idea for your business or company come from?
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
Life is too short to take things too seriously. And at the end of her life, what would matter most would not be whether those venture capitalists had ownership of her enterprise, but who she became as a human being. And the quality of the craft she produced. And how many people she helped. And how much she laughed. And how well she lived.