A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZChina traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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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.
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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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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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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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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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Authentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
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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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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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We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.
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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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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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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.
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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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In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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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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