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Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

Howard Schultz

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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Howard D. Schultz
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The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.
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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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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 is something that has to be earned every day.
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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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Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.
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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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We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.
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But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.
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Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.
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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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You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
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Don't buy preground coffee.
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Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
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On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
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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.
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While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.
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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 honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
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