My 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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
When 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 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.
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Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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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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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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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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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
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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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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.
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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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Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.
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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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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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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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