China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
HOWARD SCHULTZStarbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.
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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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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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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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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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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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Beverages have to be created. And they’re created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry – what color’s hot right now.
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To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
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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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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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Risk more than others think safe.
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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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