Ed Schultz Quotes

Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.

These people are out of control. It's stunning.

I don't have any secret sauce and I'm no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.

I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

Success is something that has to be earned every day.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

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.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

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.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

Success is best when it is shared.

The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

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.

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.

The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big - and then dream bigger.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

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

We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

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.

It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound.

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'.

The Petal table is a flower that is always in bloom.

At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

Corporate money is controlling everything.

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

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.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.