32+ Best Starbucks Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Inspirational starbucks quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

Famous 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 and their ilk are for meeting with people you don’t care to meet with and finishing term papers. – Lauren Leto

I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper. – Ryan Lilly

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

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option. – Howard Schultz

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

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

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

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do. – Howard Schultz

I’ve always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. – Nolan Bushnell

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture. – Howard Schultz

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

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’m so spoiled – I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. – Katie Holmes

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

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

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

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

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry. – Howard Schultz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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