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You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

Howard Schultz

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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Brooklyn
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Howard D. Schultz
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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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People in Washington need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.
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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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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 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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When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
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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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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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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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Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.
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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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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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It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.
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I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.
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Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?
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I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work 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 they need.
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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Success is best when it is shared.
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