My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways 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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Don’t settle! Embrace a dream–and keep dreaming. Don’t be a bystander. Take it personally.
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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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Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.
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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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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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This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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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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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.
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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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We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.
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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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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
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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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