Howard Schultz Quotes

When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.

When I was contacted about coming back to Impact they were obviously at a stage when they were really rebooting as a company.

You look at the Blur comeback, it was so smooth - so smooth - compared to The Verve.

I believe Yahoo!'s best years are still ahead of it.

When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.

Big clubs in Europe always go through difficult spells where it appears as though there is no light at the end of the tunnel. But because they are big clubs, they always come back, and they do so with a vengeance.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.

Comeback is a good word, man.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Any day, the tide could turn. You have one or two bad films, and now you've got to make a comeback.

You can't delegate turning a company around.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I lost a lot. It was almost like I was a retired player where I lost all of my athleticism. I lost everything. Being able to get it back, step by step, little bit at a time, it was like surprising myself.

The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.

Most of the clubs I have had, they have been in a precarious situation when I have taken over and I have had to change it, even going back to Scarborough and all that.

A lot of people think being at the top means you have to be the best at a certain game. You don't. It's more about personality.

When you're at the top you're always going to be shot at.

To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There's a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.

While we are disappointed in performance in 2016, we believe we have a path to a recovery.

The 2011 Cubs were the oldest team in the division, the most expensive team in the division, and the worst team in the division. And we really needed to start over.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)