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:

Although they can hire executives with many talents and skills, many CEOs discover that what they lack most is a reliable sounding board.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Once you’ve figured out what you want to do, find someone who has done it before.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

…with the right mentor, don’t be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don’t know what you don’t know.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you’ll be surprised how much others will help.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Strong, creative people are a lot more stimulating to be around that yes-men.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Products are inert. You have to hire great people… celebrate their skills, and give them the freedom to do their jobs right.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Without romance and vision, a business has no soul, no spirit to motivate its people to achieve something great. But a successful company can’t sustain itself on exhilarating ideas alone.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

Processes and systems, discipline and efficiency are needed to create a foundation before creative ideas can be implemented and entrepreneurial vision can be realized.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

As you’re growing a business, you never know the long-term implications of decisions you make.

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Pour Your Heart Into It:

…relationships and loyalty have become undervalued commodities at many American companies.

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