Best 182 quotes of Howard Schultz on MyQuotes

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

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

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.

Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

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

People in Washington need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

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.

Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.

Risk more than others think safe.

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

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

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

Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.

Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.

Starbucks being an extension of peoples home and work. The sense of community, human connection. That appears to be as relevant in Turkey, China, Japan and Spain as it is here in America. And Starbucks I think is creating something for people all over the world that has not existed before.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

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

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

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.

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.

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

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.

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.

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.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

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

The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.

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

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

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.

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.

The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.

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

The rules of engagement around building a brand have changed significantly over the past 10 to 15 years. Where companies at one time could spread their message through traditional marketing, consumers now seek an enduring emotional connection with the companies they patronize. The foundation of that connection is the most important characteristic of building a world-class brand: trust. Trust with your people and trust with your customers.

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

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

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