Howard Schultz Growth Quotations

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

We have just begun to realize how large the global growth prospects are, and we anticipate many years of significant development in existing and new markets, ... Ultimately we believe we can surpass 20,000 stores worldwide.

need to really invest ahead of the growth curve and get underneath the complexity of distributing products effectively and efficiently throughout the country.

Our core beverages, coupled with a strong holiday promotion, drove results in our retail stores, while solid growth in licensed locations led to the increase in our specialty business revenues.

I think from his speech and his remarks, we see a genuine and authentic feeling of wanting not only an open relationship with (our) country but also a genuine commitment to making sure these are stages of growth and development for our two nations.

We believe that we are still in the very early days of Starbucks growth cycle and that we can surpass 20,000 Starbucks stores worldwide,

I don't think there's a market in the world today for us that rivals the growth and development opportunity, and the early acceptance that we're enjoying throughout the country, that China has,

I think growth covers up mistakes.