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Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.

Howard Schultz

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
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
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 you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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Commitment Inspirational Passionate People Possible Purpose Surround Yourself
I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, ‘I’m going to do this’.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Belief Difference Lose Myself Passion Thinking Time Win
Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Creation Dedication Effort Time Yourself
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Life Missing Myself People Pursue Sight
Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.
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Advertisement Greatness Marketing Money Ourselves People Thinking Training
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.
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Company Endurance Greatness Leadership Problem Solve
Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Alone Arrive Empty Success Yourself
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
Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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Result Success Target
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
Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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Believe Big Dreams Goal Inspirational Yourself
We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Behavior Change Consumption Customer Information Technology
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Price Sales Strategy

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