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
Howard Schultz quotes about
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.
I don't think there's a market in the world today for us that rivals the growth and development opportunity, and the early acceptance that we're enjoying throughout the country, that China has,
We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (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 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.
Over the past year we viewed countless films and spoke with numerous studios in pursuit of finding the perfect film. Just as we have demonstrated with music we believe that Starbucks can ultimately change the rules of the game for film marketing and distribution.
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.
I think from his speech and his remarks, we see a genuine and authentic feeling of wanting not only an open relationship with (our) country but also a genuine commitment to making sure these are stages of growth and development for our two nations.
Management's proposal to declassify the Board demonstrates Starbucks Board of Directors commitment to good corporate governance practices. The Board believes that the annual election of directors is a primary means for shareholders to influence corporate governance policies and hold management accountable for implementing those policies.
I would hope congressional leaders put this at the front of their agenda,
I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.