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I Think Growth Covers Up Mistakes.

We Would Take Something Old And Tired And Common - Coffee - And Weave A Sense Of Romance And Community Around It. We Would Rediscover The Mystique And Charm That Had Swirled Around Coffee Throughout The Centuries.

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.

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.

What I Would Say To Young Entrepreneurs Is There's So Many Moments In Your Life Where You Have These Dreams, And People Are Trying To Protect You, And They Say, Perhaps, Friends, Family, Parents Sometimes, They Don't Agree With It, They Think, 'this Is Just Too High Of A Hurdle.' And I Don't Agree With That.