In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

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.

Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.

The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.