Robert Nelson Quotes

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.

Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it'll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically.

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

I don't typically drink coffee.

I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.

I drink a lot of coffee.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.

Life's too short for bad coffee.

In the U.S., people are habitual about drinking coffee in the morning. In China, many are drinking coffee in the afternoon.

Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Coffee is my water now.

I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.

You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

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 America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I'm going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It's the best way to make conventional coffee.

People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.