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We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

Howard Schultz

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.
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Art Company Culture People Resume Science
When companies fail, or fail to grow, it’s almost always because they don’t invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.
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Company Failure Growth Investment Need People System
Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn’t a program it has to be a way of life.
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Build Company Different Kind Life Profit Program Try Way
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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Achievement Bold Impact Inspirational Value Yourself
Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.
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Entrepreneur Imagination Love Sacrifice Thinking Worth
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Digital Home Media Social Train
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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Balance Discipline Embrace Growth Intuition Status
We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.
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Charm Community Old Romance Time Tired
I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
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Expectation Experience Life Myself People Right Surprise
People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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Authentic Experience People World
The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.
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Balance Business Conscience Humanity Manage Success Try
My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.
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Commitment Family Important Life Myself Passion
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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Achievement Meaning Person Team Work Victory
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.
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Hard Leadership Trust Vulnerable
I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
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Dreams Honesty Inspirational Journey Myself Position Success World
I don’t have any secret sauce and I’m no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.
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Believe Job Myself Secret Smart Surround Talent

We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

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We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

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