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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

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
When companies fail, or fail to grow, it’s almost always because they don’t invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.
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Company Failure Growth Investment Need People System
Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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Day Earn Success
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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Build Company Different Kind Life Profit Program Try Way
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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Business Challenge Condition Human
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
Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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Company Definition Discipline Greatness Understand
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.
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Balance Discipline Embrace Growth Intuition Status
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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Business Conscience Greatness Identity Yourself
We would take something old and tired and common – coffee – and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.
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Charm Community Old Romance Time Tired
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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Feeling Fight People Sacrifice Trust
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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Belief Difference Lose Myself Passion Thinking Time Win
Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Creation Dedication Effort Time Yourself
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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Job Myself Promise Security Way
Beverages have to be created. And they’re created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry – what color’s hot right now.
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Color Creation Fashion Hot Right Trend
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
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Act Action Authority Guidance People Planning Problem Responsibility

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.

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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.

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