Howard Schultz Quotes

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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Advice Afraid Help Right Surprise Vulnerable Weakness
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
Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.
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Entrepreneur Imagination Love Sacrifice Thinking Worth
I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
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Coffee Day Imagination Myself
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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Coffee Community Company Discover Heart People Togetherness
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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Business Leadership One Liner Stand
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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Business Enough Price Prosperity Sales Strategy Yourself
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
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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Business Death Embrace Operation Principle
Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
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Company Definition Discipline Greatness Understand
Authentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
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Advertisement Authentic Company Marketing
Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Alone Arrive Empty Success Yourself
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.
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Build Change Endurance Heart Powerful Society 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
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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Difficult Fight Fragile Politics Situation Wake Up
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
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Business Price Sales Strategy
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
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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Age Believe Early Feeling Inspirational Mom Myself Possible
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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Act Action Authority Guidance People Planning Problem Responsibility
Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
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Creation Dedication Effort Time Yourself
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
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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Expose Life Parents
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
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Achievement Brand Endurance Opportunity Represent Strategy
We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.
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Business Company Conscience Heart Soul
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
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
When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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Commitment Inspirational Passionate People Possible Purpose Surround Yourself

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