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.
HOWARD SCHULTZBelieve in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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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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Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.
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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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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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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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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 parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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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 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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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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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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Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep.’ To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow.
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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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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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Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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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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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.
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Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
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Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.
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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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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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