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 SCHULTZWe 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.
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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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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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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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Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.
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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.
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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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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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The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
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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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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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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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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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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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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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