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.
HOWARD SCHULTZWork 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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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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Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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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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Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.
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While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.
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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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Success is best when it is shared.
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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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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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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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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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My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep.’ To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow.
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I 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.
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