When you're building a business or joining a company you have to be transparent, you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

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.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.