Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

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.

Self-awareness is the key to self-fulfillment.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Joe DiMaggio was quite mean to Marilyn Monroe when they were married. But after she died, he did tend to her grave, which made up for it.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.

There are 249 millionaires in Congress. Remember a couple of years ago when this new Congress told us they had the solution to the recession? Apparently, they didn't share it with the rest of us.

One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.