The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

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.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

Men must go out of their minds.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who

Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.