We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

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.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Friendship is never forgettable in your whole life. It is always sweet like chocolate but never bitter like Neem.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.