Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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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While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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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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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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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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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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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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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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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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Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
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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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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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