Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

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.

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Bloggers now have no concept. They are given things; they put them on, take pictures, and then just disappear from sight. Who cares?

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.