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Sep 2016
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Starbucks' Howard Schultz Doesn't Sleep—...

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Howard Schultz wasn't born into business. A Brooklyn boy whose father worked menial jobs to support the family, Schultz thought his way out would be through sport. That is, however, until he broke his jaw on the football field at 18 (an injury from which 
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