There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.

If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

Usually what happens is somebody grabs me and they always pull me off to the side. Nobody ever does it publically. They say, "I didn't want to be here." Or, "I don't usually like people like you." Or, "I didn't believe the things you actually talked about would work. I'm here to tell you that you converted me." That happens a lot.