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

The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after youve done that, dream bigger.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it