China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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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.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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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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In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks’ position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can – and have, in some cases – been able to educate and influence people.
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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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Risk more than others think safe.
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If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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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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