To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
HOWARD SCHULTZVictory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.
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I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
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Success is best when it is shared.
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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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And with the right mentor, don’t be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don’t know what you don’t know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you’ll be surprised how much others will help.
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Always challenge the old ways.
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When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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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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Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
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Every step of the way, I made a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that’s the only way to ensure security in any job.
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Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
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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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While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.
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