If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
HOWARD SCHULTZI 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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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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Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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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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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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Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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Always challenge the old ways.
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But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.
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Success is best when it is shared.
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We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.
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Risk more than others think safe.
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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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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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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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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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Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.
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Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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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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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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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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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.
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We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.
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Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
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In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.
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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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