Howard Schultz Quotes

Just. Plain. [Fu*king.] Grilled. Swordfish.

Bir şirketin, çalışanlarıyla arasında kurduğu güven ilişkisinden daha değerli bir şey yoktur. İnsanlar yönetimin kazancı adilce paylaştırmadığına inanırsa şirketten soğurlar. Yönetime güvenmemeye başladıklarında ise şirketin geleceği tartışmalı hale gelir.

Infusing work with purpose and meaning, however, is a two-way street. Yes, love what you do, but your company should love you back.

Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you will never accomplish more than others expect

Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.

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.

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

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

Fixing moments, like mopping a dirty floor, only provides short-term satisfaction. But take the time to understand the cause of the problem — like how to keep a floor from getting so dirty in the first place — solves, and maybe eliminates, a problem.

How leaders embody the values they espouse sets a tone, an expectation, that guides their employees’ behaviors.

While I would not want to constantly battle against the odds, the raw feeling of accomplishing something that others did not think possible, or leading people beyond where they thought they could go, is extremely gratifying.

Günlük hayatta, kolay yolu seçmenizi isteyen dostlarınızdan, ailenizden ve iş arkadaşlarınızdan, mevcut yöntemleri tatbik etmeniz yönünde öyle çok baskı görürsünüz ki sadece statükoyu kabul etmemeniz değil sizden bekleneni yapmanız da zorlaşabilir. Ama kendinize, hayalinize gerçekten inandığınızda, kontrolü elinize almak ve vizyonunuzu gerçeğe dönüştürmek için elinizden gelebilecek her şeyi yapmanız gerekir.

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 the right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.

I’ve said often that every enterprise and organization has a memory. And those memories create a path for people to follow.

History shows that silence is unforgivable, for it gives bigotry license. And when meek words masquerade as moral courage, they are perceived as indifference and give the worst of human nature permission to flourish.

In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said “no.

Çoğumuz, hayallerimizin suya düşecek gibi olduğu önemli anlarla karşı karşıya kalırız. Bu tür olaylara karşı hazırlıklı değilsinizdir ama nasıl tepki vereceğiniz önemlidir. Önemli olan sahip olduğunuz değerleri unutmamanızdır. Cesur ama dürüst olun. Teslim olmayın. Çevrenizdeki diğer insanlar da dürüstse başarırsınız.
Beklenmedik toplar kafanıza çarptığında savunmasız kalabilirsiniz. İşte böyle durumlarda bir fırsatı kaçırabilirsiniz. Böyle anlar, aynı zamanda gücünüzün test edildiği zamanlardır.

The point of a coffee store was not just to teach customers about fine coffee but to show them how to enjoy it.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. — ALBERT EINSTEIN

One of the terrible tragedies, for me, was the fact that my father passed away before he could witness what I achieved.