Howard Schultz Quotes

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company. We are very paternalistic. We have a very good health plan - we take care of people.

The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

So we have a commitment to the business and to its people.

To companies we have this message: You should keep the promises that you make to your employees.

There are few people so adoring as staff on the payroll.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

We do all we can to proactively think about employees, how to care about them.

When we exited the textiles business, we paid our bankers and labourers. We must have been the only company to do that.

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

We want to see companies making a good faith effort and putting some tangible initiatives behind their pledge for diversity.

Creating a strong company culture isn't just good business. It's the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders - employees, management, and customers.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government is great and that government's there to make sure corporations play fair and are not mean and do not rip people off, there's a little bit of truth in everything. Some corporations are bad, some corporations have done bad things, but as a general rule, it's dangerous to subscribe to things like that.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities. But there are still too many powerful interests fighting to protect their own profits and privileges at the expense of everyone else.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when someone wants to actually demand of himself and those who work with him that what they do is not just profitable but good and useful.

If I were Mark Zuckerberg or any of these guys, I would say, "My God. How does the world expect us to deal with this?" I mean, it's too big a responsibility; I think they're going to welcome this. They'll maybe keep it in the private sector, but they'll welcome some form of regulatory operation because they've been so successful that they are a global, public good. Everyone needs them.

We need more responsibility, but we need it not just when there's a crisis. I mean, we've had years in which the reigning economic ideology has been what's good for Wall Street, but not what's good for Main Street.

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.