If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.

– Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, at the company’s annual meeting. Schultz was responding to a shareholder who suggested that a boycott by people against marriage equality, which Starbucks supports, was hurting the bottom line.