Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz

"Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home."
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"Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home."
Howard Schultz
"The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared."
Howard Schultz
"Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee."
Howard Schultz
"I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience."
Howard Schultz
"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."
Howard Schultz
"I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream."
Howard Schultz
"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."
Howard Schultz
"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."
Howard Schultz
"Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust."
Howard Schultz
"I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it."
Howard Schultz
"I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity."
Howard Schultz
"I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community."
Howard Schultz
"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."
Howard Schultz
"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."
Howard Schultz
"At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that."
Howard Schultz
"My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway."
Howard Schultz
"I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure."
Howard Schultz
"This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams."
Howard Schultz
"What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that."
Howard Schultz
"Business leaders cannot be bystanders."
Howard Schultz
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