Howard Schultz Quotes About Balance

Quotes about: Balance

• Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

  Howard Schultz

  Responsibility, Views, Wind

• Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

  Howard Schultz

  Business, Discipline, Intuition

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.309, Rodale

• On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

  Howard Schultz

  Creating, People, Balance

• Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

  Howard Schultz

  Balance, Trying, Different

  Interview with Ipek Cem, www.global-leaders.tv. December 14, 2005.

• The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

  Howard Schultz

  Humanity, Trying, Balance

• When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

  Howard Schultz

  Meaningful, Coffee, Organization

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