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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More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
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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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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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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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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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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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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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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Beverages have to be created. And they’re created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry – what color’s hot right now.
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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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Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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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 best when it is shared.
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