I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

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.

Never! while heaven spares my reason, ’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

I'm more a competitive person.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.