Starbucks Quotes - Page 2

• Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

  Howard Schultz

  Thinking, People, Training

  "Howard Schultz, CEO, Starbucks". Interview with Andrew Stevens, edition.cnn.com. December 28, 2007.

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• Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

  Simon Sinek

  Coffee, Space, Tables

  "Blinded By Their Own Product: Starbucks Is Losing Its Buzz" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• 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.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Understanding

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• Nike store won't accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it.

  Dov Davidoff

  Nike, Acceptance, Guy

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 22, 2011

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• My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.

  Howard Schultz

  Sports, Daughter, School

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• Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee!

  Lil B

  Girl, Morning, Coffee

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Coffee, Home

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Starbucks being an extension of peoples home and work. The sense of community, human connection. That appears to be as relevant in Turkey, China, Japan and Spain as it is here in America. And Starbucks I think is creating something for people all over the world that has not existed before.

  Howard Schultz

  Home, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Ipek Cem, www.global-leaders.tv. December 14, 2005.

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• I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles.

  Hannibal Buress

  Jobs, Want, Life Is

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• People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

  Howard Schultz

  People, World, Want

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is all abuzz". 'CBS Evening News" with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2012.

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• California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, California, Stores

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• While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Heart, People

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• People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, People, Atmosphere

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

  Rupert Everett

  Cancer

  "Actor Everett labels Starbucks a 'cancer'". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 18, 2006.

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• Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.

  Adam Hills

  Sex, Coffee, Prison

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• People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

  Rachel Cohn

  New York, People, Different

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.84, Egmont UK

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• We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

  Maureen Johnson

  Giving, Choices, Doe

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• I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Wall, Blue, Stronger

  "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

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• If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Girl, Sorry

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• I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dog, Real, Bags

  "Shirley MacLaine gets into spirit as Coco Chanel" by Monica Corcoran, www.latimes.com. September 07, 2008.

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• We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Media

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• That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Gun, Culture

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?

  Eoin Colfer

  Meetings

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.

  Veena Sud

  Beautiful, Fall, America

  Source: collider.com

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