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 SCHULTZHiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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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’.
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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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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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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.
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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.
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Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.
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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.
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Authentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
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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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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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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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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.
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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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Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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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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Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
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Always challenge the old ways.
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When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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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 are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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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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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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