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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.

Howard Schultz

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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Ability Confidence Feeling Fundamental Insecurity Leadership Yourself
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
Risk more than others think safe.
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Inspirational One Liner Risk Safety Thinking
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
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Hard Leadership Trust Vulnerable
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
We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.
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Difficult Fight Fragile Politics Situation Wake Up
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
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business Death Embrace Operation Principle
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Dreams Honesty Inspirational Journey Myself Position Success World
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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
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.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Build Company Different Kind Life Profit Program Try Way
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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Achievement Bold Impact Inspirational Value Yourself
When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Commitment Inspirational Passionate People Possible Purpose Surround Yourself

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