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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.

Howard Schultz

Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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People Smart Threat Yourself
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
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
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
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
Beverages have to be created. And they’re created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry – what color’s hot right now.
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Color Creation Fashion Hot Right Trend
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.
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Build Company Different Kind Life Profit Program Try Way
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
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
I don’t have any secret sauce and I’m no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.
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Believe Job Myself Secret Smart Surround Talent
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
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
Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Creation Dedication Effort Time Yourself
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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Digital Home Media Social Train
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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Achievement Believe Dreams Greatness Inspirational Luck Possible Reality Vision Yourself
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

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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