Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
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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In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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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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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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Success is best when it is shared.
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Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn’t a program it has to be a way of life.
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Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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Risk more than others think safe.
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It’s one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you’ve got to be willing to leave what’s familiar and go out to find your own sound.
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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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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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Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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Always challenge the old ways.
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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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Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.
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We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
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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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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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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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When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
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We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.
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At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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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’.
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The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.
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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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