People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
HOWARD SCHULTZOne of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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Success is best when it is shared.
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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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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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You cant build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.
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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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People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.
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When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
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Beverages have to be created. And they’re created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry – what color’s hot right now.
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We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
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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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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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