The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

In the end, we all die for what we believe in... mostly because we all die.

There is no complete theory of anything.

What is a decision? It's a tool to remove confusion! Are you confused? If so, then make the decision and let's move on!

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.