If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

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.

Separate yourself from the lies and illusions which are not you.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

Make sure that today is better than yesterday.

ASK YOURSELF: Are you presenting yourself in the best of all lights, online and off, and demonstrating the dignity of good manners? Make sure of it! If not, it may come back to haunt you.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

If everyone chose love, this world would be magnificent. Always choose love.

I have the thickest skin of anyone you'll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven't heard a million times before.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.