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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

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
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Business Enough Price Prosperity Sales Strategy Yourself
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.
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Beyond Build Experience Organization People Skill Surround Yourself
Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.
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Bold Give Up Integrity Yourself
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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Achievement Meaning Person Team Work Victory
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
I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
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Character Definition Myself Person Rich Value
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Price Sales Strategy
I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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Coffee Day Imagination Myself
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.
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Believe Job Myself Secret Smart Surround Talent
Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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Brand Customer Recognition Stand Yourself
When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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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
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
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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Day Earn Goodness Humility Result Work
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.
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Balance Business Conscience Humanity Manage Success Try
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.
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Advice Afraid Help Right Surprise Vulnerable Weakness

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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