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Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.
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This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.
— Howard Schultz
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
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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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Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
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Success is something that has to be earned every day.
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We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.
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I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
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Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
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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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The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
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We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
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Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.
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At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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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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Customers have different need states and life experiences.
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I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
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My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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Starbucks was under attack, mostly from within.
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Risk more than others think safe.
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In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
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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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Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.
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You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
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Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible. Care more than others think wise.
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After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city.
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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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Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.
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My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, ... begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - GOETHE
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We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.
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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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I've said often that every enterprise and organization has a memory. And those memories create a path for people to follow.
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Twenty Million New Customers Are Worth Taking a Risk For
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Don't buy preground coffee.
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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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California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.
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When you're in a hole, quit digging!
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Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.
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Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after youve done that, dream bigger.
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If it Captures Your Imagination, it will captivate others.
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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
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Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?
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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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Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence.
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While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!
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Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.
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Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.
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I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.
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Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
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Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.
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When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.
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Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.
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Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.
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Every step of the way, I made it a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job.
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Customers must recognize that you stand for something.
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We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
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Success is best when it is shared.
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The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.
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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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In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.
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You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
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If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.
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When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.
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Just. Plain. [Fu*king.] Grilled. Swordfish.
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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.
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We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.
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Life is a sum of all your choices, wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.
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Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
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Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.
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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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In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said no.
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Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
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My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.
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Success is best when it's shared.
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As Americans, there are very few things we have confidence in.
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I can't imagine a day without coffee. I can't imagine!
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Starbucks has always been about so much more than coffee. But without great coffee, we have no reason to exist.
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The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.
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We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.
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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
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55 percent - about 1.4 million veterans among this generation - said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.
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I'm not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.
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The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
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Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned
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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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Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail
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