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
We are exploring what else we can use in terms of other forms of entertainment, maybe literature? Literature is, I think, a natural extension,
We want to stay here. We love this city. We raised our kids here. We built our businesses here and we're being forced to accept a set of circumstances that are not acceptable. We can't continue to lose this kind of money.
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
The point of entry for the Starbucks experience has been much more a social experience (in China) rather than competition between coffee and tea,
We believe that there's a very, very large opportunity still in front of us in North America,
We believe that Starbucks can ultimately change the rules of the game for film marketing and distribution.
We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).
We can't be expected to continue to lose millions of dollars every year.
We establish the value of buying a product at Starbucks by our uncompromising quality and by building a personal relationship with each customer. Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.
We are inspired by the tremendous response to the Starbucks brand domestically and internationally and could not be more pleased with the overall performance of the company,
I would hope congressional leaders put this at the front of their agenda,
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.
Our core beverages, coupled with a strong holiday promotion, drove results in our retail stores, while solid growth in licensed locations led to the increase in our specialty business revenues.
What I'm trying to talk about is the preservation of a culture,