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 SCHULTZAnd 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.
More Howard Schultz Quotes
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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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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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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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In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.
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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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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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Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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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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Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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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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Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
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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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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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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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