Howard Schultz Quotes

I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.

One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Steve Jobs was my hero.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Great founders live for chaotic moments.

I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.