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 SCHULTZMy mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep.’ To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.
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Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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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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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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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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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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When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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Risk more than others think safe.
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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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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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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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Always challenge the old ways.
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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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