Howard Schultz Quotes

You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I have this call in my heart to reach all people.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren't enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call "the third place" ... a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn't know they had.

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?

People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.

I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share.

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.

I tell people, "It's the hardest thing to explain, but it's the easiest thing to understand." And all anybody really needs to know is, the struggles of life, the joy of life, the excitement and the heartbreak of life is something we can all connect to. And I like to hope that the inclusivity of the show [This Is Us] is something that audiences will relate to.

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it.

If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

I like to touch people's hearts.

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.