To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.
During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packet...
For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands of baristas in 54 countries. ...
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart. They are real and sustainable. Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign. The compani...
I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exp...
Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.
I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.
Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people ...
Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.
We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.
I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job.
People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.
