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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
Businessman
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Brooklyn
New York
Howard D. Schultz
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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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Success is best when its shared
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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 a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.
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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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At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.
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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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Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.
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If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.
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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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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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I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.
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When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.
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I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.
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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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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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I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place and as a result of that the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
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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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When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!
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