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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

I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
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Dreams Honesty Inspirational Journey Myself Position Success World
Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.
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Commitment End Inspirational Journey Start Strong
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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Achievement Meaning Person Team Work Victory
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.
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Blame Life Listening Myself People Responsibility
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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Business Death Embrace Operation Principle
Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn’t a program it has to be a way of life.
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Build Company Different Kind Life Profit Program Try Way
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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Business Price Sales Strategy
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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Business Company Conscience Heart Soul
Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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Company Definition Discipline Greatness Understand
Always challenge the old ways.
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Challenge Old One Liner Way
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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Belief Difference Lose Myself Passion Thinking Time Win
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
Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Creation Dedication Effort Time Yourself
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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Act Action Authority Guidance People Planning Problem Responsibility
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
Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.
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Dreams Embrace Inspirational Personal

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