Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other. — John Mackey Beings Copy Share Image
At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. — John Mackey Allow Copy Share Image
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those. — John Mackey Customers Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring. — John Mackey Inspiring 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 Alternative Copy Share Image
If you're growing very rapidly, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, in a way, because the growth kind of bails you… — John Mackey Because Copy Share Image
Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it. — John Mackey Any Copy Share Image
I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place. — John Mackey Better 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 Also 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 Able 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 Any 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 Because 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 Been 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
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
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure. — John Mackey Afraid 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
I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and… — John Mackey Across 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
Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news. — John Mackey Action Copy Share Image
I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential. — John Mackey 100 years Copy Share Image
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about… — John Mackey About 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 Eventually 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 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
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
We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about… — John Mackey About Copy Share Image
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative.… — John Mackey About 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 A good thing 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 sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select… — John Mackey Free 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 Chore 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
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 Been 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 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
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 About 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
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
