A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution. — John Mackey Diet Copy Share Image
As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose. — John Mackey Business Copy Share Image
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time. — John Mackey Actions Copy Share Image
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a… — John Mackey Business 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
The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together. — John Mackey Approach Copy Share Image
I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams. — 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
Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company,… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want 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
Shopping for groceries for most people is like a chore. It's like doing the laundry or taking out the garbage. And we… — 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
I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward… — John Mackey Business Copy Share Image
I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole… — John Mackey Culture Copy Share Image
I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long… — John Mackey College 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
I tell students and young professionals all the time to follow their hearts, do what they truly love, and if it's business,… — John Mackey Being 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
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to… — John Mackey Business Copy Share Image
