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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
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
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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Accomplishment Expectation Play Safety System Try Yourself
We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.
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Business Coffee Company People Service
The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
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Business Coffee Fast Growth Industry
My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.
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Commitment Family Important Life Myself Passion
Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.
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Day Earn Goodness Humility Result Work
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
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
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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Business Challenge Condition Human
Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Creation Dedication Effort Time Yourself
We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
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Battle Breathe Cry Customer Need Ourselves Way
In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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Adversity Change Discover Hard Time Time
Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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Brand Customer Recognition Stand Yourself
People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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Authentic Experience People World
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
Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.
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Dreams Embrace Inspirational Personal
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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Coffee Community Connection Creation People Power Simplicity
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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Love Passion Sacrifice Willing Yourself
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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Business Leadership One Liner Stand
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
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
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
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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Hard Leadership Trust Vulnerable
At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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Believe Confidence Leadership Myself
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

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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