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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

Howard Schultz

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Digital Home Media Social Train
Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Company Definition Discipline Greatness Understand
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Hard Leadership Trust Vulnerable
I don’t have any secret sauce and I’m no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Job Myself Secret Smart Surround Talent
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Act Action Authority Guidance People Planning Problem Responsibility
Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Alone Arrive Empty Success Yourself
While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Coffee Community Company Discover Heart People Togetherness
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Life Missing Myself People Pursue Sight
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Country Drink Inspirational Risk Transformation
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Leadership One Liner Stand
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Age Believe Early Feeling Inspirational Mom Myself Possible
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Expose Life Parents
We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Build Business Career Job Mission Passion Temporary Work
I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, ‘I’m going to do this’.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Belief Difference Lose Myself Passion Thinking Time Win
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Accomplishment Expectation Play Safety System Try Yourself
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Challenge Condition Human

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

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