Always challenge the old ways.

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after youve done that, dream bigger.

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

Customers must recognize that you stand for something.

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.

There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

Hypebeasts want shoes just to say other people don't have them.

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.

I don't tend to stand still for very long.

Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.

And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do.