Howard Schultz quote: "Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry

I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a sti...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constitu...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

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

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholeso...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilit...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don'...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between comm...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It&#...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anyt...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and bev...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I'm not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recogniz...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift i...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to d...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opport...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage ot...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home f...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a come...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many de...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

People have come to me over the years and said to me: 'I admire the culture of Starbucks. Can yo...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, w...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that herita...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have t...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I can't imagine a day without coffee. I can't imagine!
HOWARD SCHULTZ

My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the fi...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position i...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Whenever I see someone carrying a cup of coffee from a Starbucks competitor, whether it’s an indep...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked ba...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principle...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excite...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

We've asked [president] Wally Walker to begin to seek other alternatives in view of the fact that it...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

To get rich is glorious
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, new...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be sha...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about indiv...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by techn...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I'm a voracious reader.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong c...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind....
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

We have a big opportunity in China, ... We think the number of stores here can rival the number in N...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

In many ways what we announced today is a milestone in building the business in China, ... But it mi...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I don't think there's a market in the world today for us that rivals the growth and development oppo...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I would hope congressional leaders put this at the front of their agenda,
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Care more than others think wise.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Expect more than others think possible.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Dream more than others think practical.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Risk more than others think safe.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

China's emerging as one of the centers of the world, if not the center of the world, ... If my kids ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from eve...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

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

Joy comes from using your potential.
WILL SCHULTZ

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, f...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I was...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of o...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.
CHARLES SCHULTZ

Pyramid is interested in the development of an attractive and publicly safe commercial corridor on R...
ADAM SCHULTZ

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.
ADAM SCHULTZ

The game plan was to establish the run and take advantage of the misdirection and deception of the d...
ADAM SCHULTZ

We found two large high-temperature fields and as we explored them, we would come upon a large mound...
ADAM SCHULTZ

I think everybody's working harder in practice. Everybody's hitting harder, they're trying to get re...
ADAM SCHULTZ

I just had an off night. The defense was keeping us in the game, and we just couldn't get anything g...
ADAM SCHULTZ

People should follow their own energy.
WILL SCHULTZ

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was ask...
PETER SCHULTZ

Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o...
ANN SCHULTZ

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
CHARLES SCHULTZ

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; i...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just f...
WESLEY SCHULTZ

We played football as many games as we can, we're going to play basketball as many games as we can. ...
ANDREW SCHULTZ

How do we reward and how do we validate terrorism by awarding people their own territory, their own ...
ANDREW SCHULTZ

It worked the previous two times we ran it. I knew it would work.
ANDREW SCHULTZ

They're a great football team, too, No. 1 in the state.
ANDREW SCHULTZ

There were hundreds of people walking around with scrapes, bruises, people being carried out on stre...
ANDREW SCHULTZ

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

We will not be measured by the world’s standards anymore. We will be measured by the plumb line of...
TERESA SCHULTZ

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was...
WESLEY SCHULTZ

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn wha...
THEODORE SCHULTZ

I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

My professional apprenticeship at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943 could not have been better; t...
THEODORE SCHULTZ

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaini...
GEORGE SCHULTZ

God’s mercy and patience with us are beyond our ability to comprehend. He pursues us until we resp...
TERESA SCHULTZ

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high scho...
THEODORE SCHULTZ

Generally speaking, no, I don't think most people know what it is.
BRIAN SCHULTZ

We can do anything a hotel does for corporations looking for a facility to hold a meeting. Our audio...
BRIAN SCHULTZ

The films drive the audience, [but] the food quality makes a difference whether or not they go to a ...
BRIAN SCHULTZ

I read an article on how customers wanted to get film information in a format they could print out. ...
BRIAN SCHULTZ

The key is to start with an offer. We created a measurable system that people could respond to via a...
BRIAN SCHULTZ

By focusing on our tagline 'Film, Food & Fun,' Studio Movie Grill creates a significantly more enjoy...
BRIAN SCHULTZ

It's a chance for children and adults interested in theater arts to see what it's all about and meet...
BRIAN SCHULTZ

Indianapolis has this international reputation of being the best city to host an event like this.
BOB SCHULTZ

In America, we're dividing into red and blue states. We're swinging our ideologies against each othe...
BOB SCHULTZ

Groups are now booking across the nation into 2010 through 2012. We don't want to miss that booking ...
BOB SCHULTZ

We have had more than 1,000 hotel rooms added since 2000, ... Inventory is definitely going up, and ...
BOB SCHULTZ

The Big Ten gets the ball rolling and the cash flowing.
BOB SCHULTZ

We want the fans and teams and officials ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â when they land in Indian...
BOB SCHULTZ

So far, we've been hitting to circles on the ground, so it's really difficult to tell what is happen...
BOB SCHULTZ

It's the vanilla perception. The city doesn't have the sex appeal that the coastal towns have. We ne...
BOB SCHULTZ

We are proud to have been associated with this extremely significant mission. Working with Stanford ...
BOB SCHULTZ

Sixty percent of our HP Integrity server customers are running Oracle applications and databases tod...
BOB SCHULTZ

The ability to network-enable virtually any serial-based device both quickly and cost-effectively al...
BILL SCHULTZ

This will be an opportunity for that particular piece of ground to really serve the neighborhood. It...
BILL SCHULTZ

A major trend in security installations is the cost-effective integration of fiber optic cabling wit...
BILL SCHULTZ

Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wro...
BILL SCHULTZ

If you were going to condemn someone to life in prison, you need to know why, to have some motive .....
BILL SCHULTZ

Maybe you've got to hate her from the evidence. Maybe you want to somehow find her guilty of this of...
BILL SCHULTZ

Maybe nobody picked up his paper that week because it wasn't any good.
BILL SCHULTZ

The grapes here really hurt bad. There's areas in the grape vineyards that will have nothing. Probab...
BILL SCHULTZ

This is drastic and potentially unfair and is a dynamite charge. I can't imagine how you forcing the...
BILL SCHULTZ

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost.
GEORGE SCHULTZ

That was one of my advantages, so I was going to use it at every opportunity. I may have had some ou...
CASSANDRA SCHULTZ

I had a great four years. My teammates were great and the coaching staff helped me so much. I felt l...
CASSANDRA SCHULTZ

Obviously, after playing over there and losing, we had a little more to prove.
CASSANDRA SCHULTZ

When I look back at the won-loss total (91-24) in my career, I'll see we had some pretty successful ...
CASSANDRA SCHULTZ

I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applaud...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relation...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It ca...
DANIEL SCHULTZ

On the day of His death, Friday, the altars are stripped bare of any decoration. Then on Saturday mo...
ANN SCHULTZ

Enthusiasm for his life, enthusiasm for his job, enthusiasm to get to his family for Christmas.
JOHN SCHULTZ

The name of the game was turnovers and bad passes,
JOHN SCHULTZ

They escaped, ... The problem is we should have had seven touchdowns in the first half, but we didn'...
JOHN SCHULTZ

It's not in the budget, so we'd probably have to fund it through the CCD (Community Capital Developm...
JOHN SCHULTZ

Glad to be back -- I'll guarantee you that.
JOHN SCHULTZ

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'
JOHN SCHULTZ

Instead of calling 911, he contemplated what to do. He decided he'd bury him in the backyard,
JOHN SCHULTZ

It was a tragedy to begin with, ... But now we have a homicide-slash-attempted suicide.
JOHN SCHULTZ

Without those days they can't progress forward into the next grade, so that's a concern of a lot of ...
JOHN SCHULTZ

With him behind us, it does make blocking easier because he makes quick cuts and finds the holes.
JOHN SCHULTZ

The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our ent...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorabl...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place cont...
MICHAEL SCHULTZ

For something where it?s a leisure draw, where there's no organization working collectively, like on...
BOB SCHULTZ

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.
WILL SCHULTZ

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you jus...
WESLEY SCHULTZ

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to w...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

We are thrilled to see that the Government of Ontario has created such a generous award for the prov...
ALBERT SCHULTZ

Our dream is to have the spaces occupied at least half of the time by people from many of the other ...
ALBERT SCHULTZ

There are slow geochemical processes that can create spherical shapes and filamentous forms. The 'ey...
PETER SCHULTZ

There is something not quite right about letting a patient dictate whether or not they take medicine...
WILLIAM SCHULTZ

Everything about this show is on such a large grandiose scale. It's the largest thing that's ever co...
SARA SCHULTZ

He actually told them ahead of time. He actually practiced with one of them with a belt, how he was ...
CHUCK SCHULTZ

One of the perks of my injuries is the chance to take advantage of graduate school.
DANA SCHULTZ

It's like a seven-acre skating rink of snowy dirt.
PETER SCHULTZ

All I can say is that Ryan drank and drove and wants to prevent that from happening again. He wanted...
PATRICIA SCHULTZ

The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

Scratch a firefighter and you're likely to find a little kid just underneath. We, who came in contac...
JOHN SCHULTZ

I think it's a good experiment, a good compromise and a good step forward for Squaw Bay. My hope is ...
DAN SCHULTZ

It will look like a big front yard.
DAN SCHULTZ

When we feel used and abused, the Bible says we are loved. When we feel abandoned, the Bible says we...
TERESA SCHULTZ

They've got the widest margins in hardware production. And as a result they've been able to drive do...
MARK SCHULTZ

There has been a lot of student interest and parent interest. We have a waiting list for our introdu...
DANIEL SCHULTZ

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my ha...
WESLEY SCHULTZ

In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said...
MARK SCHULTZ

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.

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