You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

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.

When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

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The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.