In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

Risk more than others think safe.

It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.