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To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

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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Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
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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 more resources, more money, happier families.
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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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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.
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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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Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.
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Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.
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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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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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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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We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.
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