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.
HOWARD SCHULTZEvery 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.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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Risk more than others think safe.
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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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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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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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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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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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Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
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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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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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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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In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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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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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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