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:

Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all. Stand by people, and they will stand by you.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

When a company shows generosity toward them, employees show a more positive outlook in everything they do.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

If you treat your employees as interchangeable cogs in a wheel, they will view you with the same affection.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

In business… passion comes from ownership, trust, and loyalty. If you undermine any of those, employees will view their work as just another job.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

If you aspire to fast growth, you need to create an infrastructure for the larger enterprise you are planning to create.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

When you’re starting a business, whatever the size, it’s critically important to recognize that things are going to take longer and cost more money than you expect.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

…it’s a lot wiser to bring in experts before you need them than to stumble ahead with green, untested people who are prone to making avoidable mistakes.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Convincing shareholders to increase their investment is probably the hardest part of an entrepreneur’s work.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it’s almost always because they don’t invest in the people, the systems, and the process they need.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

You can’t create a world-class enterprise without investing in it.

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