In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.
HOWARD SCHULTZA great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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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.
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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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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Success is best when it is shared.
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Always challenge the old ways.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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