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Don't buy preground coffee.

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
Businessman
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Financier
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Howard D. Schultz
Coffee

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I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.
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The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.
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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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One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure
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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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The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.
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People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
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Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
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While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!
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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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Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.
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I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place and as a result of that the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
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Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
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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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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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People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.
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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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Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
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Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.
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To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.
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