Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

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.

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 we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Invisible things are the only realities.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

The only race I know is the human one.

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.