365 Quotes by Howard Schultz

People have come to me over the years and said to me: 'I admire the culture of Starbucks. Can you come give a speech and help us turn our culture around?' I wish it were that easy. Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.

There is more of a consensus than I saw in the past in terms of how people see things,

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

Risk more than others think safe.

I'm not as interested in what you make as I am in what you're passionate about. What business are you really in?

We're on a collision course with time and we can't wait. If people want to make me the villain, that's their prerogative, but I'm here to tell you that we've tried for almost two years to meet the elected officials halfway and we're not getting anything back.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

We are exploring what else we can use in terms of other forms of entertainment, maybe literature? Literature is, I think, a natural extension,

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.