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If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?Collection: Howard
Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.Collection: Howard
When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.Collection: Howard
You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.Collection: Howard
A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.Collection: Howard
Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.Collection: Howard
There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.Collection: Howard
I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.Collection: Howard
Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.Collection: Howard
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.Collection: Howard
It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.Collection: Howard
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.Collection: Howard
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.Collection: Howard
We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.Collection: Howard
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key.Collection: Howard
The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.Collection: Howard
We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.Collection: Howard
We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.Collection: Howard
I despise research. I think it's a crutch.Collection: Howard
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.Collection: Howard
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.Collection: Howard
I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream.Collection: Howard
We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.Collection: Howard
Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.Collection: Howard
I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.Collection: Howard
I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.Collection: Howard
For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.Collection: Howard
I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.Collection: Howard
With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.Collection: Howard
Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.Collection: Howard
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.Collection: Howard
Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.Collection: Howard
The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.Collection: Howard
Don't buy preground coffee.Collection: Howard
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.Collection: Howard
The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.Collection: Howard
Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.Collection: Howard
I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.Collection: Howard
When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.Collection: Howard
In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.Collection: Howard
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.Collection: Howard
We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.Collection: Howard
Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.Collection: Howard
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.Collection: Howard
I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.Collection: Howard
America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.Collection: Howard
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.Collection: Howard
The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.Collection: Howard
We sell tea in Starbucks, but I think the experience is very different. I think coffee is something that is quick - it's transactional. I think tea is more Zen-like. It requires a different environment.Collection: Howard