Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.
HOWARD SCHULTZPeople around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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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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Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
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If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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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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The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.
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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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Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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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 can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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Risk more than others think safe.
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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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I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
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I don’t have any secret sauce and I’m no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.
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