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I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

Howard Schultz

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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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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Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.
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I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks.
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Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.
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Customers have different need states and life experiences.
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Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
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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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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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Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.
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If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.
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Success is best when it is shared.
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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 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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Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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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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California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.
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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 are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.
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Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.
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