Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz
Howard D. Schultzis an American businessman. He is best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Square, Inc. In 1998, Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, with Dan Levitan. In 2012, Forbes magazine ranked Schultz as the 354th richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $1.5 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 July 1953
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.
As Americans, there are very few things we have confidence in.
I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.
I despise research. I think it's a crutch.
For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.
Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.
We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
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.
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
We believe that we are still in the very early days of Starbucks growth cycle and that we can surpass 20,000 Starbucks stores worldwide,
What I'm trying to talk about is the preservation of a culture,
I'm not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.
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.
Unlike the last few years, this is not something that's broken. It might need to be refined, but this is something that we laid the foundation for the future, and it's here and we recognize it.