These Starbucks quotes will inspire you. Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Starbucks quotes, Starbucks sayings, and Starbucks proverbs.
Best Starbucks Quotes
- “Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.” ~ Howard Schultz
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“Why can’t we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?” ~ Eoin Colfer
- “Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!'” ~ Conan O’Brien , Starbucks quotes on cups
- “You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” ~ Rick Warren
- “Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.” ~ Howard Schultz
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“Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte… ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual’s taste.” ~ Reed Hastings
- “When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “I’ve always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.” ~ Nolan Bushnell
- “Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.” ~ Howard Schultz
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“I’m so spoiled – I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.” ~ Katie Holmes
- “I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don’t want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “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.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “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
- “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
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“A cup at Starbucks isn’t really that expensive when you consider what Victoria’s Secret charges per cup.” ~ Ashley Purdy
- “Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.” ~ Jared Diamond
- “With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “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 , Starbucks quotes work
- “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
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“I love Starbucks. Maybe thats a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. Its what gets me out of bed in the morning.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “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
- “Starbuck’s is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck’s price.” ~ Jay Leno
- “You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny.” ~ Rick Warren
- “Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn’t a program it has to be a way of life.” ~ Howard Schultz
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“Nike store won’t accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it.” ~ Dov Davidoff
- “The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it’s like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That’s just civilization.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “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
- “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
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“People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “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
- “California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks’ largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “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
- “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
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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
- “People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.” ~ Rachel Cohn
- “We study there a lot because… what other choice does society give us, right? It’s Starbucks or death, sometimes.” ~ Maureen Johnson
- “I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I’m like a walking battery.” ~ Maggie Stiefvater
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “I like to go out and write. So I’ll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I’ll sit there and I’ll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.” ~ Harlan Coben
- “What I like to do is to give my real name in Starbucks but be really hostile each time, as if they’re asking me something that I’ve never heard in my life. I give them a really dirty look, “Really? It’s Natasha. Okay?” Like I’ve never been to Starbucks before. Each time. I enter the premises looking for combat.” ~ Natasha Lyonne
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“We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle’s Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.” ~ Sarah Vowell
- “More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks’ innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “Starbucks is planning to close down all the restrooms in its New York locations. Which explains the most popular new Starbucks order: An empty cup.” ~ Jimmy Fallon
- “he card companies will often, as a courtesy, honor that credit card, but hit you with a penalty. And you keep swiping your card for $3 at Starbucks for your latté, and you’re getting hit with a $25 penalty because it’s over your credit limit.” ~ Richard Thaler
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“Starbucks is rekindling America’s love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.” ~ Howard Schultz
- “In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that’s employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.” ~ Hamish Linklater
- “If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don’t, we can’t expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don’t have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.” ~ Thomas Friedman
- “If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they’d get along OK, but they’d both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”” ~ A. J. Jacobs
- “People refuse to believe that I’ve never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.” ~ Edward Ruscha
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“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.” ~ St. Sukie de la Croix
- “What I would hope to do is painting, because I don’t think I’m qualified for anything else. My last job would be babysitting, so I don’t think Starbucks would even hire me.” ~ Kristin Bauer van Straten
- “I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!” ~ Janel Parrish
- “On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day’s conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: ‘Large coffee with milk, please.” ~ Caroline Knapp
- “I’m used to very low-budget situations. In ‘The Exploding Girl,’ we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn’t have trailers.” ~ Zoe Kazan
