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
You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.
In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.
Success is best when it is shared.
I can't imagine a day without coffee. I can't imagine!
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does...
Risk more than others think safe.
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.
The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.