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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

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
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
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Conscience Greatness Identity Yourself
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
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
At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.
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Believe Confidence Leadership Myself
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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Art Company Culture People Resume Science
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
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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Business Leadership One Liner Stand
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
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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Expose Life Parents
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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Ability Attribute Leadership Organization People Share
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
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.
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Build Change Endurance Heart Powerful Society Yourself
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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Business Enough Price Prosperity Sales Strategy Yourself
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

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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