The Leaders In Washington Have Got To

Always Challenge The Old Ways.

I Think Starbucks Created A Platform And, Ultimately, A Runway For Many Other Companies To Emulate. I Suspect If We Had Not Achieved What We Have, There Would Have Been Many Regional Brands That Would Have Succeeded. But I'm Not Sure There Would Have Been A National Brand Of The Scope Of Starbucks.

Success Is Empty If You Arrive At The Finish Line Alone.

My Kids Probably Started Drinking Coffee In Their Late Teens.

In The 1960s, If You Introduced A New Product To America, 90% Of The People Who Viewed It For The First Time Believed In The Corporate Promise. Then 40 Years Later If You Performed The Same Exercise, Less Than 10% Of The Public Believed It Was True. The Fracturing Of Trust Is Based On The Fact That The Consumer Has Been Let Down.