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People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Howard Schultz

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
I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Dreams Honesty Inspirational Journey Myself Position Success World
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
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Entrepreneur Imagination Love Sacrifice Thinking Worth
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Death Embrace Operation Principle
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Enough Price Prosperity Sales Strategy 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
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Act Action Authority Guidance People Planning Problem Responsibility
Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

People Smart Threat 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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Difficult Fight Fragile Politics Situation Wake Up
People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Feeling Fight People Sacrifice Trust
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
Always challenge the old ways.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Challenge Old One Liner Way
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Price Sales Strategy
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Dream Leaving Moments Right Sound Yourself

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