“Unemployment, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, particularly in the UK, and I think consumer confidence, particularly in the UK, is very, very poor.”
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Howard Schultz
Howard D. Schultz is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, and from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006.
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Born 19 July 1953 · Q472330
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2026· 8 entries
“The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.”
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“...Free my hands and I'll varnish this floor with your brains!”
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“Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...”
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“I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!”
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“Nobody wants to see Donald Trump removed from office more than me.”
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“under assault from unionization”
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Public attention spiked: 3,049 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.5× the usual 684, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
Lead Stories rated the claim “BBC Starbucks founder Howard Schultz warns company has reached critical point of decline amid global boycott” 'No Record'.
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2023· 5 entries
Schultz testified before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
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Schultz announced that he would be stepping down early from the position
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Two weeks before he was projected to turn the leadership of the company over to incoming CEO Laxman Narasimhan, Schultz stepped down as interim CEO of Starbucks
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After the October 7th 2023 attacks on Israel by Hamas, the Schultz foundation released a press release on the 13th of October stating that "we join millions around the world who will not remain silent bystanders to evil" and that "More will follow, including support to address the trauma and humanitarian needs that are unfolding".
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Later on 26 October 2023 Starbucks released another press release further clarifying Schultz and the company's position.
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2022· 3 entries
Starbucks announced that CEO Kevin Johnson was retiring and that Howard Schultz would take over as interim CEO until Laxman Narasimhan took over as CEO in April 2023
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“I was convinced that under my leadership, employees would come to realize that I would listen to their concerns. If they had faith in me and my motives, they wouldn”
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As union organizing campaigns started to form at Starbucks, and gain victories, Schultz held a town hall meeting as he returned to the company as interim CEO
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2020· 5 entries
Schultz endorsed Biden, and called on Americans to vote for Biden "for the future of our republic"
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Described the treatment of business and capitalism by American society as "vilification"
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Reported net worth: $4.2B (as of 2020).
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Campaign: 2020 presidential election.
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That while Schultz is heavily involved in the state's political debates, he often "doesn't show up to vote" in various municipal elections including that of the city's mayor and city council
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2019· 7 entries
Claimed: “Says presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama each tried to get immigration bills passed, but "it did not work because the other party was unwilling to provide the president and his party a victory."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz once said that he would “hire an illegal immigrant” before he would hire a veteran.” False.
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Claimed: ““Over 40 percent of the American people don’t have $400 in the bank.”” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Stated in an interview with 60 Minutes that he was exploring a run for president as an independent candidate, and that he considered running as a centrist
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Saying the move had "damaged America's relationships with foreign allies
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Published his fourth book, From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America
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Schultz accepted full responsibility for the sale
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2018· 4 entries
Schultz announced that he would retire from active management of Starbucks after 37 years, as he was considering amongst other options a campaign for U
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That Schultz had taken a one-dollar annual salary sometime in the past couple of years
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Political commentators speculated whether he would run in the 2020 United States presidential election
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“the greatest threat domestically to the country”
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2017· 1 entry
Schultz got into a highly publicized argument with President Trump after he instructed Starbucks to disregard an executive order barring Syrian refugees into the country
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2016· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz admitted that he was using the chain's "holiday cup" design to lure customers to Satanism.” False.
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Campaign: 2016 presidential election.
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2015· 3 entries
Denying this, stating, "Despite the encouragement of others, I have no intention of entering the presidential fray
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Schultz founded Onward Veterans, a private foundation to help post-9/11 military veterans transition to civilian life
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“Despite the encouragement of others, I have no intention of entering the presidential fray. I”
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2014· 1 entry
Schultz authored his first non-business book, For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice, co-written with Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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2013· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was confronted by a shareholder over the company’s support for same-sex marriage.” Mixture.
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(two years prior to US Federal recognition)
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2012· 2 entries
Schultz had Starbucks express support for Washington state's Referendum 74, which legalized same-sex marriage in that state
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Campaign: 2012 presidential election.
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2011· 1 entry
And on the board of payment processing company, Square, Inc
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2009· 2 entries
“the place that concerns us the most is western Europe, and specifically the UK. The UK is in a spiral”
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A bill known as the Employee Free Choice Act was being proposed in Congress
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2008· 4 entries
The city of Seattle reached a settlement with the new ownership group and the SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder for the 2008–09 NBA season
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Bennett sold the Storm to Force 10 Hoops, LLC, an ownership group of four Seattle women, which kept the team in Seattle
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After an eight-year hiatus, Schultz returned as CEO of Starbucks during the height of the 2008 financial crisis
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Schultz doubled the amount of fair trade coffee Starbucks bought
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2007· 1 entry
For $2,300, and again on October 24, 2008, for $2,300
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2006· 1 entry
Schultz sold the SuperSonics and Storm to Clay Bennett, chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, an Oklahoma City ownership group, for $350 million, after having failed to convince the city of Seattle to provide
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2000· 1 entry
Schultz stepped down as CEO of Starbucks, moving to the new position of chief global strategist to help the company expand internationally
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1999· 1 entry
AIDs Action awarded Schultz the National Leadership Award for philanthropic and educational efforts to battle AIDS
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1998· 2 entries
Schultz established venture capital firm Maveron with investment banker Dan Levitan
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Schultz received the 'Israel 50th Anniversary Tribute Award' for "playing a key role in promoting a close alliance between the United States and Israel"
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1996· 1 entry
Howard and Sheri Schultz co-founded the Schultz Family Foundation, which supports Onward Youth, aimed at promoting employment for young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are not in school and not working, and Onwa
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1992· 2 entries
Starbucks had its initial public offering (IPO) and trading of its common stock under the stock ticker SBUX
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And used a $271 million valuation to double their store count in a series of highly publicized coffee wars
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1983· 1 entry
“No wonder a few people in Cross Plains don’t like him. They don’t understand him. His preoccupation with history and with writing instead of the price of corn and cotton is something they could not understand Could I? I liked to talk about books. . . History. . . Writing. Well, this was an opportunity to listen to a very interesting storyteller!”
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1982· 2 entries
Schultz married Sheri Kersch, with whom he has two children
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At age 29, Schultz was hired at Starbucks as the director of retail operations and marketing
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1981· 1 entry
Visited the Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle to fill their plastic cone filter orders
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1979· 1 entry
Was recruited by French private equity firm PAI Partners to be general manager of a Swedish kitchenware manufacturer's U
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1976· 1 entry
Became a salesman for Xerox in New York
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1967· 1 entry
“The King is only a slave like yourself, locked with heavier chains.”
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1953· 3 entries
Born 1953-07-19.
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To Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Fred and Elaine Schultz, in Brooklyn, New York
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“Seek for a shadow that drifts before a cloud that hides the moon; grope in the dark for a cobra; follow a mist that steals out of the swamp at midnight.”
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1938· 1 entry
“Poor devils, they'll wake up in hell without knowing how they got there.”
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1933· 1 entry
“By Crom, I do not like this place, where dead men rise, and sleeping men vanish into the bellies of shadows!”
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1930· 1 entry
“Eons ago when your ancestors were defending their caves against the tiger and the mammoth, with crude spears of flint, the gold spires of my people split the stars! They are gone and forgotten, and the world is a waste of barbarians, white and black. Let me, too, pass as a dream that is forgotten in the mists of the ages...”
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1929· 1 entry
“For there are worlds beyond worlds, as Kull knows, and whether the wizard bewitched him by words or by mesmerism, vistas did open to the king’s gaze beyond that strange door, and Kull is less sure of reality since he gazed into the mirrors of Tuzun Thune.”
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