When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
HOWARD SCHULTZBeverages 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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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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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
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It’s one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you’ve got to be willing to leave what’s familiar and go out to find your own sound.
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Success is best when it is shared.
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Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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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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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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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.
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My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.
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If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
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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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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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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’.
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One 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.
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Always challenge the old ways.
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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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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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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.
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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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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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