Howard Schultz Quotes

I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

To me, my business is my life.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.

You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I'll stand by that until the day I die!

After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

I have to work, for my soul.

Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something interesting.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.