When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

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.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.