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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.

Howard Schultz

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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Believe Life Missing Myself People Pursue Sight
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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Battle Breathe Cry Customer Need Ourselves Way
One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure.
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Ability Confidence Feeling Fundamental Insecurity Leadership Yourself
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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Business Enough Price Prosperity Sales Strategy Yourself
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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Coffee Community Connection Creation People Power Simplicity
Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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People Smart Threat Yourself
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Digital Home Media Social Train
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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Believe Job Myself Secret Smart Surround Talent
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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Hard Leadership Trust Vulnerable
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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Business Leadership One Liner Stand
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Balance Discipline Embrace Growth Intuition Status
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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Business Death Embrace Operation Principle
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks’ position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can – and have, in some cases – been able to educate and influence people.
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Coffee Education Growth Influence Issues People Place
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Blame Life Listening Myself People Responsibility
Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Alone Arrive Empty Success Yourself
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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Expose Life Parents

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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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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