The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
HOWARD SCHULTZI 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.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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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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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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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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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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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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If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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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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My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.
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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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When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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