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 SCHULTZAlways challenge the old ways.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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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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Be bold, but be fair. Don’t give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail.
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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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People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.
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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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Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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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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But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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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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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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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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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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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.
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Risk more than others think safe.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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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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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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