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Business Quotes by Howard Schultz

52 Business quotes by Howard Schultz

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Starbucks spends more on training its partners than on advertising, showing that profit and purpose can coexist. Schultz urges businesses to balance earnings with social conscience and to pour heart into work. He warns that clinging to the status quo leads to a death march for any company.

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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

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We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.

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Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

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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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In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company…

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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 think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

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Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

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Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

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I'm not as interested in what you make as I am in what you're passionate about. What business are you really in?

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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's…

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My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by…

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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…

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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,…

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“A well-built brand is the culmination of intangibles that do not directly flow to the revenue or profitability of a company, but…

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I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on…

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“All great companies have passed through bad years that forced soul-searching and rethinking of priorities. How we deal with them will be…

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We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy…

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The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have…

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What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people…

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The rules of engagement around building a brand have changed significantly over the past 10 to 15 years. Where companies at one…

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When we love something, emotion often drives our actions. This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies…

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Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always…

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“There is a word that comes to my mind when I think about our company and our people. That word is 'love.'…

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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…

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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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When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

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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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When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for…

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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…

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Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

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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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A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

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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…

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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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To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any…

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The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

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Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't…

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We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to…

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While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!

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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.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and…

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I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board,…

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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People in Washington need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.