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.
HOWARD SCHULTZAt an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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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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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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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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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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Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.
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You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
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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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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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Every step of the way, I made a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that’s the only way to ensure security in any job.
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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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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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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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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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