Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

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.

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.

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king.

Dreams don’t get done until they are due.

We have All our own Way and Thoughts about Life, please wake up

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.

I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.

My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.