QUOTES by Howard Schultz
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"Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times."
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"Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity."
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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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"The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary."
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"I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it."
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"I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid."
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"If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles."
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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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"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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"When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture."
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"I'm not as interested in what you make as I am in what you're passionate about. What business are you really in?"
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"Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks."
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"If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed."
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"Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now."
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"Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions."
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"There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true."
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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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"At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that."
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"The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets."
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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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"Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience."
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"I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company."
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"For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time."
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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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"Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail"
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"When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity."
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"It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am."
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"My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency."
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"Every step of the way, I made it a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job."
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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."
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"All great companies have passed through bad years that forced soul-searching and rethinking of priorities. How we deal with them will be the litmus test."
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"After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city."
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"Life is a sum of all your choices,” wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way."
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