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We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

Howard Schultz

Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Bold Give Up Integrity Yourself
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Beginning Culture Dreams Guide Principle Try Vision
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Company Conscience Heart Soul
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Job Myself Promise Security Way
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Entrepreneur Imagination Love Sacrifice Thinking Worth
At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Confidence Leadership Myself
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Dream Leaving Moments Right Sound Yourself
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Company Endurance Greatness Leadership Problem Solve
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Conscience Greatness Identity Yourself
We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Charm Community Old Romance Time Tired
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
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Digital Home Media Social Train
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
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 SCHULTZ

Difficult Fight Fragile Politics Situation Wake Up
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Balance Discipline Embrace Growth Intuition Status
You cant build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Beyond Build Experience Organization People Skill Surround Yourself

We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

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We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

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