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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

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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Beyond Build Experience Organization People Skill Surround Yourself
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 SCHULTZ

Company Endurance Greatness Leadership Problem Solve
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Battle Breathe Cry Customer Need Ourselves Way
If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Achievement Enterprise Heart Impossible Work Worth Yourself
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’.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Belief Difference Lose Myself Passion Thinking Time Win
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

Artist Construction Entrepreneur Manager Meaning Personal Work
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Balance Discipline Embrace Growth Intuition Status
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Price Sales Strategy
And with the right mentor, don’t be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don’t know what you don’t know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you’ll be surprised how much others will help.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Advice Afraid Help Right Surprise Vulnerable Weakness
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Coffee Education Growth Influence Issues People Place
When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Commitment Inspirational Passionate People Possible Purpose Surround Yourself
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.
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Accomplishment Expectation Play Safety System Try Yourself
Risk more than others think safe.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Inspirational One Liner Risk Safety Thinking
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Beginning Culture Dreams Guide Principle Try Vision
At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Confidence Leadership Myself
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

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