Howard Schultz Quotes
- Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
- Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.
- Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.
- Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.
- 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.
- The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
- The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
- The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.
- The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.
- There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.
- This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
- We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
- We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.
- 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…
- We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.
- We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.
- When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.
- 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…
- Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most…
- Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had…