John Mackey Quotes

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• People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.
• Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.
• Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
• Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and…
• I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart…
• The way yogurt works is you take the old yogurt culture and you put it in milk. You have to put enough of the old…
• As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.
• The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and…
• Healthier team members get a bigger food discount. We give our sickest team members an option to go through what we call the Total Health…
• Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.
• Whole Foods has a good health care plan.
• I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing…
• I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates…
• Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
• Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall…
• We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh…
• 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 all…
• Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in…
• Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.
• Back then, before the Internet, you had these paper catalogs that you ordered all the food from. So, we flipped through the catalogs, looked up…

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