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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.

Howard Schultz

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.
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Coffee Community Company Discover Heart People Togetherness
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.
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Hard Leadership Trust Vulnerable
Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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Result Success Target
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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Business Leadership One Liner Stand
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
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Love Passion Sacrifice Willing Yourself
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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Accomplishment Expectation Play Safety System Try Yourself
Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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Brand Customer Recognition Stand Yourself
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.
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Build Business Career Job Mission Passion Temporary Work
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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Balance Discipline Embrace Growth Intuition Status
People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.
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Feeling Fight People Sacrifice Trust
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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Day Earn Goodness Humility Result Work
I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
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Character Definition Myself Person Rich Value
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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Ability Confidence Feeling Fundamental Insecurity Leadership Yourself
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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Expose Life Parents
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
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Beginning Culture Dreams Guide Principle Try Vision
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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Company Endurance Greatness Leadership Problem Solve

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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