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
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.
need to really invest ahead of the growth curve and get underneath the complexity of distributing products effectively and efficiently throughout the country.
No collective-bargaining agreement is going to override the economic burden of our arena deal, now or in the future, ... But at the end of 2010, our lease is over. It's not that long.
Men are willing to talk about these things in ways that were inconceivable less than ten years ago.
Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.
Providing our customers with innovative and unique ways to discover and acquire all genres of great music is another way we are enhancing the Starbucks Experience,
Prior to the end of the calendar year, Starbucks will be taking a modest price increase,
Elite teams have to demonstrate consistency. That's the challenge now, and certainly that's the expectation.
We are as passionate about our commitment to our communities as we are about achieving financial success.
This partnership brings together two great, well-respected brands, which we believe benefits both Starbucks customers and The New York Times readers,
No market to date potentially has the opportunities for us that China ultimately will.
As a result of that, we are insulated from the current fluctuations and, most importantly, have no plan to raise prices,
We have just begun to realize how large the global growth prospects are, and we anticipate many years of significant development in existing and new markets, ... Ultimately we believe we can surpass 20,000 stores worldwide.
I would hope congressional leaders put this at the front of their agenda,