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The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

Howard Schultz

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
Businessman
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Entrepreneur
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Brooklyn
New York
Howard D. Schultz
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America
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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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Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.
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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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The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
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Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.
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Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.
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Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.
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I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.
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My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
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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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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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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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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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Don't buy preground coffee.
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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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If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
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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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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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