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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.

It's One Thing To Dream, But When The Moment Is Right, You've Got To Be Willing To Leave What's Familiar And Go Out To Find Your Own Sound.

Great Companies Are Defined By Their Discipline And Their Understanding Of Who They Are And Who They Are Not.

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.

It's Different When You're Trying To Turn Something Around, Especially Something That You Built, At A Time When So Many Constituents - The Media, Wall Street, Competitors, Ex-employees - Are All Saying That Starbucks's Best Days Are Behind It, And That Schultz Is Never Going To Be Able To Bring It Back.