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  • Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee. -- Howard Schultz
  • Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee. -- Howard Schultz
  • When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally. -- Howard Schultz
  • Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings. -- Howard Schultz
  • I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. -- Nolan Bushnell
  • Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option. -- Howard Schultz
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  • Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising. -- Howard Schultz
  • Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. -- Jared Diamond
  • Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do. -- Howard Schultz
  • Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee! -- Lil B
  • When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture. -- Howard Schultz
  • When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste. -- Reed Hastings
  • I love Starbucks. Maybe thats a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. Its what gets me out of bed in the morning. -- Nikki Sixx
  • I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. -- Howard Schultz
  • With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks. -- Howard Schultz
  • Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program. -- Howard Schultz
  • Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again. -- Deepak Chopra
  • 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. -- Simon Sinek
  • Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. -- Rupert Everett
  • We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more. -- Howard Schultz
  • Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry. -- Howard Schultz
  • I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. -- Katie Holmes
  • The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets. -- Howard Schultz
  • You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga. -- Bikram Choudhury
  • I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai. -- Shirley MacLaine
  • If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting. -- Cory Monteith
  • I see a cute guy in Starbucks and I'm like... 'Oh, okay,' and I walk out. But who knows? Maybe I will ask somebody on a date soon! -- Shay Mitchell
  • Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you. -- Mike Birbiglia
  • You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails. -- Nick Offerman
  • If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense. -- Jennifer Lawrence
  • I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks. -- Howard Schultz
  • My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway. -- Howard Schultz
  • 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. -- Howard Schultz
  • Starbucks has kept me in the ministry. -- Tommy Barnett
  • I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks. -- Rainbow Rowell
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  • People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience. -- Howard Schultz
  • Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world. -- Janice Dickinson
  • Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks? -- Eoin Colfer
  • Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee. -- Rory Bremner
  • I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right. -- Adam Lambert
  • California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores. -- Howard Schultz
  • I love any movie that has a retarded person working at Starbucks. -- Chris Kattan
  • I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when Im in Starbucks. -- Katee Sackhoff
  • People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland. -- Edward Ruscha
  • We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company. -- Howard Schultz
  • Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks. -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. -- Anne Hull
  • Their offense is shakier than Katherine Hepburn after an all-night espresso bender at Starbucks. -- Dennis Miller
  • You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks...We've dumbed it down. -- Johnny Hunt
  • In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. -- Henry Rollins
  • Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks. -- Howard Schultz
  • How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks? -- David Schweikert
  • Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life. -- Jason Calacanis
  • Nike store won't accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it. -- Dov Davidoff
  • Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever. -- Denis Leary
  • Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew. -- Howard Schultz
  • I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars. -- Analeigh Tipton
  • I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!! -- Dennis Miller
  • A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup.. -- Ashley Purdy
  • People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same. -- Rachel Cohn
  • Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is. -- Rick Riordan
  • I always start my day with a red-eye misto - two shots, extra hot, extra foam - from Starbucks. -- Mika Brzezinski
  • In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go -- Saira Viola
  • It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America. -- Alice Cooper
  • Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. -- Virginia Postrel
  • If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special. -- Kengo Kuma
  • I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks. -- Ryan McGinley
  • We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes. -- Maureen Johnson
  • The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary. -- Howard Schultz
  • Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? -- John Green
  • There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true. -- Howard Schultz
  • I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra) Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks. -- Ahmed Zewail
  • London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe. -- Howard Schultz
  • I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers. -- Zoe Kazan
  • I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino. -- Alonzo Bodden
  • As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee. -- Gerard Way
  • You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. -- Kenneth Lonergan
  • Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry. -- Ian Anderson
  • At Starbucks I like ordering a Tall venti in a grande cup. That's basically me asking for a small large in a medium cup. -- Jarod Kintz
  • I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning. -- Nikki Sixx
  • Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century. -- St. Sukie de la Croix
  • Starbucks is planning to close down all the restrooms in its New York locations. Which explains the most popular new Starbucks order: An empty cup. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough. -- Adam Hills
  • Helping others pulls us out of our own problems. And so does dressing up like frogs and playing leap frog in a Starbucks. Who would've known. -- Misha Collins
  • I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks! -- Janel Parrish
  • We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do. -- Howard Schultz
  • Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them. -- Ann Coulter
  • More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused. -- Howard Schultz
  • I'm obsessed with Starbucks seasonal flavors. I love their seasonal cups. I love their pumpkin-flavored coffee. I love that. I absolutely love, love, love Starbucks seasonal everything. -- Adrienne Bailon
  • Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce? -- Nicolas Berggruen
  • I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles. -- Hannibal Buress
  • When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway. -- Susan Orlean
  • I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander. -- Howard Schultz
  • I worked at Starbucks, I was a waiter, a bartender and a valet, sometimes working 2 to 3 jobs at a time while getting a lot of 'no's' as an actor. -- Andrea Hall
  • In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous. -- Hamish Linklater
  • My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation. -- Shirley Manson
  • People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect. -- Eric Weiner
  • Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square. -- Danny Meyer
  • Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job. -- Azealia Banks
  • I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job. -- Theophilus London
  • Fifteen states across the country have gas prices that have dipped below $2. That means it's now cheaper to buy a gallon of liquefied dinosaurs than one cup of coffee at Starbucks. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity. -- Howard Schultz
  • Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience. -- Howard Schultz
  • For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time. -- Howard Schultz
  • If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed. -- Howard Schultz
  • Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life. -- Howard Schultz
  • What I would hope to do is painting, because I don't think I'm qualified for anything else. My last job would be babysitting, so I don't think Starbucks would even hire me. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
  • I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job. -- Theophilus London
  • I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere. -- Harlan Coben
  • I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom. -- Katie Holmes
  • Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar. -- James Altucher
  • That's the kind of trouble you get when diverse groups of people actually cross paths with one another. That's why many of the worst things in the world happen in and around Starbucks bathrooms. -- Tina Fey
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  • We sell tea in Starbucks, but I think the experience is very different. I think coffee is something that is quick - it's transactional. I think tea is more Zen-like. It requires a different environment. -- Howard Schultz
  • ...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another. -- Mark Driscoll
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