Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZIt’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.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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Always challenge the old ways.
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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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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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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
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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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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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If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
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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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In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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