But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

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.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.