We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.

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.

Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.