I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

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.

But what Jamie was saying just mixed it all up, selfish and selfless. I wasn't even sure what the words meant anymore. or if it was possible to be one without the other.

They happen only when you are distant, aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous happenings.

The fewer the words the better prayer.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.

To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.