Howard Schultz Quotes - Page 7

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• I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

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  Dream, New York, Dad

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• If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.

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  Coffee, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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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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  Growth, Vancouver, May

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• It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

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  Ironic, Retail, Benefits

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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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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  Lying, Exercise, Years

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• It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.

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  Wall, Media, Trying

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• Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don't have to pay health care costs. I just shake my head because that's not going to build long-term value and trust with your people.

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  Long, People, Cost

  "Bartiromo: Starbucks' Schultz eyes global growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. September 15, 2013.

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• We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.

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  Inspiring, Mean, Culture

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• I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

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  Different, Boards, Ceo

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• I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

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  Country, Optimistic, People

  "Starbucks CEO: 2012 not cool beans" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 8, 2012.

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• In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

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  Jobs, Blue, Injury

  "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

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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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  Who I Am, People, Ironic

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• Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

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  Fun, Financial, Crisis

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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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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  Thoughtful, People, Today

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

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  Party, America, Democratic

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• I think growth covers up mistakes.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Growth

  "Starbucks legend delivers recovery by thinking smaller". Interview with David Teather, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

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  Believe, Use, Economy

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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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  Running, College, Class

  "Howard Schultz Talks To Los Angeles Entrepreneurs About Starbucks, His New Book, And The American Dream". Interview with Nicole Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 07, 2011.

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• I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

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  People, Engagement, Action

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• The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

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  Opportunity, America, Alive

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• Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

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  Criticism, Starbucks, Courses

  "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

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• Don't buy preground coffee.

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  Coffee

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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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  Meaningful, Coffee, People

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• In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

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  Endeavor

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• Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Winning

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