Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I was in my early 20s and open to alternative lifestyles. I thought, 'I bet you get a lot of attractive, interesting… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Back then, before the Internet, you had these paper catalogs that you ordered all the food from. So, we flipped through the… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Healthier team members get a bigger food discount. We give our sickest team members an option to go through what we call… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The way yogurt works is you take the old yogurt culture and you put it in milk. You have to put enough… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I had my food consciousness… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
They said our first store in Austin would not work. Then they said it would not work outside Austin, that it would… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will… — John Mackey Copy Share
The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it… — John Mackey Copy Share
“I realized that with everything I did from that point onward, I would have to ask myself this question: "How would I feel if… — John Mackey Copy Share
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the… — John Mackey Copy Share
I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that… — John Mackey Copy Share
If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an… — John Mackey Copy Share
The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It… — John Mackey Copy Share
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and… — John Mackey Copy Share
Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other. — John Mackey Copy Share
I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I… — John Mackey Copy Share
Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week,… — John Mackey Copy Share
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role… — John Mackey Copy Share
I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the… — John Mackey Copy Share
We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It's… — John Mackey Copy Share
As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose. — John Mackey Copy Share
