Cutting Prices Or Putting Things On Sale

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.

My Father Had A Series Of Blue-collar Jobs And Never Made More Than $20,000 A Year. When I Was Seven, He Got Injured On A Job. That Was A Very Important Point - Because Of The Injury, He Couldn't Walk, And The Company He Was Working For Did Not Pay Him. There Was No Compensation. So There Was No Money And No Food.

When Companies Fail, Or Fail To Grow, It's Almost Always Because They Don't Invest In The People, The Systems, And The Processes They Need.

Social And Digital Media Is A Bullet Train, And That Bullet Train Is Not Coming Home.

Every Step Of The Way, I Made A Point To Underpromise And Overdeliver. In The Long Run, That's The Only Way To Ensure Security In Any Job.