A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZWhen companies fail, or fail to grow, it’s almost always because they don’t invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.
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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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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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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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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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In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.
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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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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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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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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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Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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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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I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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