Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

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.

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.