Don't Settle! Embrace A Dream--and Keep Dreaming.

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.

My Passion. My Commitment. This Is The Most Important Thing In My Life Other Than My Family.

Most Business People Today Are Not Going To Invest In The Uncertainty That Exists In America.

I Think There Is Probably No Better Person To Aspire To Emulate Than Steve Jobs And What He Has Done At Apple In Terms Of His Leadership, His Innovation, Not Settling For Mediocrity.

I Grew Up In A Working Class Family Where There Was No Health Insurance. I Saw First Hand The Fracturing Of The American Dream And The Bitterness That Comes When There Is No Hope And A Lot Of Despair. So I Wanted To Build The Company, In A Sense, That My Father Never Got A Chance To Work For.