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.
HOWARD SCHULTZThe 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.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.
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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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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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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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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.
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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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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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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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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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I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
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Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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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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Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
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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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Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.
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