Howard Schultz Quotes

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Particularly in China, I think a lot of people start to realise, OK, what are the things that they truly should value? That's something that fits perfectly well with what Volvo is offering.

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.

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

I don't typically drink coffee.

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

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

I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in the attitude of it. A bit more Americanized, which is both good and bad. At least when you order a cup of coffee they don't give you a hard time.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

The '90s will be looked back on as ushering in an era of comfort.

Today, a socialized China is standing toweringly in the Eastern World

The U.S. and Japan are scared of us catching up, and they will do anything to contain China's development …

Make China Strong. Make China String is the only way to ensure that foreign countries will not tart a conflict against us.

China can never be reformed from within. The manifold needs of China will be met permanently, completely, only by Christian civilization. .

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

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

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

Every other word out of every other Chinese mouth is "development, development, development, development." And that's what they're talking about it - because they believe it, A, enables them, with development, to have the kind of status they want in the world, and B, it enables them to deal with their internal problems, having to do with poverty, urban-rural as well as the environment.

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

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