Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

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.

We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.