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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.

Howard Schultz

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Company Definition Discipline Greatness Understand
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Conscience Greatness Identity Yourself
I don’t have any secret sauce and I’m no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Job Myself Secret Smart Surround Talent
The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Balance Business Conscience Humanity Manage Success Try
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Challenge Condition Human
Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Accomplishment Expectation Play Safety System Try Yourself
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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Age Believe Early Feeling Inspirational Mom Myself Possible
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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Achievement Bold Impact Inspirational Value Yourself
Success is best when it is shared.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Best One Liner Share Success Team Work
Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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Brand Customer Recognition Stand Yourself
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Big Dreams Inspirational Myself Sound
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Digital Home Media Social Train
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
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Blame Life Listening Myself People Responsibility
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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Business Death Embrace Operation Principle
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Life Missing Myself People Pursue Sight

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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