If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
HOWARD SCHULTZIn 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.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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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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Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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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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At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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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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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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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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When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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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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