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Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.

Howard Schultz

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
It’s one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you’ve got to be willing to leave what’s familiar and go out to find your own sound.
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Dream Leaving Moments Right Sound Yourself
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
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Beginning Culture Dreams Guide Principle Try Vision
If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
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Achievement Enterprise Heart Impossible Work Worth 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 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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Blame Life Listening Myself People Responsibility
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
Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Alone Arrive Empty Success Yourself
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
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
Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.
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People Smart Threat Yourself
The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.
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Balance Business Conscience Humanity Manage Success Try
Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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Day Earn Success
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
Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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Brand Customer Recognition Stand Yourself
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

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