I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
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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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I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
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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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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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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
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At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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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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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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Success is best when it is shared.
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I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
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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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When companies fail, or fail to grow, it’s almost always because they don’t invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.
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Risk more than others think safe.
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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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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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