If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

Success is something that has to be earned every day.

I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.