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.
HOWARD SCHULTZMy parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.
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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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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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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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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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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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At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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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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Authentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
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Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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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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Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
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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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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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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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