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" 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. "
Howard Schultz
You
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China
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" I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision. "
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" You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve. "
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" I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company. "
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" Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home. "
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" The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit. "
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" You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander. "
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" Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option. "
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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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" Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. "
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" We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information. "
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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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" Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America. "
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" 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. "
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" I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger. "
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" When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally. "
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" 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. "
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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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" My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens. "
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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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" I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I'm going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It's the best way to make conventional coffee. "
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" I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks. "
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" Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand. "
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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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