Success Is Best When It Is Shared.

Entrepreneurs Must Love What They Do To Such A Degree That Doing It Is Worth Sacrifice And, At Times, Pain. But Doing Anything Else, We Think, Would Be Unimaginable.

The Hardest Thing About Being A Leader Is Demonstrating Or Showing Vulnerability. And That Has A Lot To Do With Trust.

I Think The Most Important Thing That I Think Everyone In America Must Have Is Belief That Wherever They Live, Whatever Station They Have In Life, That The American Dream Is Alive And Well. I Think The Fracturing Of Trust And Confidence Is In The American Dream.

Post-9/11, We Saw An Immediate Uptick In The Amount Of People In Our Stores, All Over The Country. People Wanted That Human Connection. We Are Not Going To Fracture The Starbucks Experience.

I Honestly Never Dreamed At The Time That I Would One Day Own The Starbucks And Or Be In A Position Where We Would Have More Than 10,000 Stores Around The World. It Has Just Been An Incredible Journey For All Of Us.