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Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
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Howard D. Schultz
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Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
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The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.
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I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
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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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In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.
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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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Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.
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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.
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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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Don't buy preground coffee.
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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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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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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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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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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
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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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Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?
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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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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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