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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.

Howard Schultz

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it’s almost always because they don’t invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.
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Company Failure Growth Investment Need People System
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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Dream Leaving Moments Right Sound Yourself
Risk more than others think safe.
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Inspirational One Liner Risk Safety Thinking
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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Believe Big Dreams Inspirational Myself Sound
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
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.
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Artist Construction Entrepreneur Manager Meaning Personal Work
In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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Adversity Change Discover Hard Time Time
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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Business Price Sales Strategy
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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Difficult Fight Fragile Politics Situation Wake Up
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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Entrepreneur Imagination Love Sacrifice Thinking Worth
We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
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Battle Breathe Cry Customer Need Ourselves Way
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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Behavior Change Consumption Customer Information Technology
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.
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Build Change Endurance Heart Powerful Society Yourself
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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Coffee Community Connection Creation People Power Simplicity
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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Beyond Build Experience Organization People Skill Surround Yourself
Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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People Smart Threat Yourself

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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