Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it. — John Mackey Any Copy Share Image
I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow. — John Mackey Any 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 Been Copy Share Image
Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where… — John Mackey Able 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 Able 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 Always 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 About 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 Always 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
Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of… — John Mackey Any 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 Back 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 Bigger 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
The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together. — John Mackey Approach 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 Aspire 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 Also 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 About 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 Ethical 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 Accounting 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 Any 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 Also 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 Convert Copy Share Image
I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.' — John Mackey Classical 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
