You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative.… — 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 wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of… — 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
I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we… — John Mackey America Copy Share Image
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning.… — John Mackey Being Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lobster,… — John Mackey Day 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… — 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
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and… — 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 Ability 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
What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
