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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

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
We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.
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Build Business Career Job Mission Passion Temporary Work
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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Behavior Change Consumption Customer Information Technology
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
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.
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Advice Afraid Help Right Surprise Vulnerable Weakness
Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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Believe Big Dreams Goal Inspirational Yourself
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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Artist Construction Entrepreneur Manager Meaning Personal Work
Authentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
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Advertisement Authentic Company Marketing
I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
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Expectation Experience Life Myself People Right Surprise
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
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Achievement Brand Endurance Opportunity Represent Strategy
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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Dreams Honesty Inspirational Journey Myself Position Success World
My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep.’ To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow.
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Age Definition Mom Shallow Teaching Young
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
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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Business Company Conscience Heart Soul
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
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Company Endurance Greatness Leadership Problem Solve
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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Country Drink Inspirational Risk Transformation

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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