Customers Must Recognize That You Stand For

Despite The Fact That Starbucks Has Grown To Be A Large Company. We've Always Played Music In Our Stores And Has Always Acted As An Opportunity To Create A Mood In Our Stores. And Customers Started Asking, "what Song Are You Playing And Can I Buy That?" . And We Said "no." And That Was Kind Of The Catalyst For Beginning To Look At Music. We Started Out With Our Own Compilations And After The Success Of That. We Had The Courage To Say, "let's Produce Our Own Record." And The First Record Was With Ray Charles Before He Unfortunately Passed Away.

China Traditionally Has Been A Tea-drinking Country But We Turned Them Into Coffee Drinkers.

You Walk Into A Retail Store, Whatever It Is, And If There's A Sense Of Entertainment And Excitement And Electricity, You Wanna Be There.

We Have No Patent On Anything We Do And Anything We Do Can Be Copied By Anyone Else. But You Can't Copy The Heart And The Soul And The Conscience Of The Company.

We Are Deeply Saddened By The Tremendous Loss Of Life And Devastation Caused By Hurricane Katrina, .. Starbucks Has A Long Tradition Of Striving To Bring Together People And Communities Where We Do Business. We Extend Our Heartfelt Condolences To The Bereaved Families And Many Others Impacted By This Natural Disaster; Our Prayers And Thoughts Are With All The Families Who Have Lost Loved Ones.