If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
HOWARD SCHULTZBelieve in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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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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Every step of the way, I made a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that’s the only way to ensure security in any job.
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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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Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
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When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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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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Authentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
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You cant build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
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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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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
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Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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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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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.
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We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.
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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 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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I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn’t a program it has to be a way of life.
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My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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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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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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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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