Book Titles

Pour Your Heart Into It
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

By Howard Schultz

Year Published: 1997
ISBN-13: 978-0786863150
Categories: Employees, Heart, Leadership

87 Quotes Found

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

A company that is managed only for the benefit of shareholders treats its employees as a line item, a cost to be contained.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Treating employees benevolently shouldn’t be viewed as an added cost that cuts into profits, but as a powerful energizer that can grow the enterprise into something far greater than one leader could envision.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

If people relate to the company they work for, if they form an emotional tie to it and buy into its dreams, they will pour their heart into making it better.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

There is no more precious commodity than the relationship of trust and confidence a company has with its employees.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible. That’s what makes life rewarding.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Don’t be beaten down by naysayers. Don’t let the odds scare you from even trying.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

…the more uninspiring your origins, the more likely you are to use your imagination and invent worlds where everything seems impossible.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Once you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, other hurdles become less daunting. Most people can achieve beyond their dreams if they insist upon it.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Life is a series of near misses. But a lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

…when you really believe – in yourself, in your dream – you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

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