We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map. - Howard Schultz

Finally, the stores’ design, so critical to atmosphere, seemed to lack the warm, cozy feeling of a neighborhood gathering place. Some people called our interior spaces cookie-cutter or sterile: Clearly we have had to streamline store design to gain efficiencies of scale . . . [but] one of the results has been stores that no longer have the soul of the past. . . .

Основатели Starbucks поняли основополагающую истину торговли: чтобы что-то значить для покупателей, нужно сделать ставку на ум и искушенность и научить тех, кто жаждет знаний.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.