Howard Schultz Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Success is best when it is shared.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'.

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.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

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

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.

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

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.

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?

Always challenge the old ways.

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

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.

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.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

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.

While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

Every step of the way, I made a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job.

People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

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.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.

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.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.

The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.

Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

If it Captures Your Imagination, it will captivate others.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.