If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

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.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.

It's not about how fast you go. It's not about how far you go. It's a process.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.