Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.

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.

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional

No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc

Molding the Minds of the Future

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.