And with the right mentor, don’t be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don’t know what you don’t know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you’ll be surprised how much others will help.
HOWARD SCHULTZI never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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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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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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My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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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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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.
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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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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 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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If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
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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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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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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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