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.
HOWARD SCHULTZAuthentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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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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Risk more than others think safe.
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I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, ‘I’m going to do this’.
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I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
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Who wants a dream that’s near-fetched?
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Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.
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Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
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