Apple Quote by Michael Gerber

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets,…

— Simon Sinek

I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what…

— Howard Schultz

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

— Howard Schultz

In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company.…

— Indra Nooyi

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for…

— Howard Schultz

When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so…

— Howard Schultz

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs…

— Guy Kawasaki

“The original Starbucks began in Pike Place Market (see p. 897) as a plain-Jane hole-in-the-wall coffee shop but, having awakened a coffee revolution, has…

— Patricia Schultz

For decades, I've spoken of McDonald's as one of the premier examples of how to build a company, scale it, and ultimately sell it.

— Michael Gerber

“Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, believed the most powerful brands are built from the heart.”

— David Kelly

“As recently retired CEO Don Thompson pointed out, “Today at McDonald’s 60 percent of our franchisees—those that own restaurants in the U.S.—started as hourly…

— Don Watkins

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

— Esther McVey