When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
HOWARD SCHULTZGrow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
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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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Success is best when it is shared.
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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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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.
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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 premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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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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We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
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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 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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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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At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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