Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

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.

So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

Your words and actions must match to build your character. Any gap in those will put a dent in your credibility. Be a man of your words.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.

I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.