John Mackey Quotes

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 that any longer.

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• Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Me
  • Duty
  • Volunteer

• I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • God
  • College
  • Eyes

• The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Happy
  • More
  • View

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Dark

• We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Always
  • Boundaries
  • Push

• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Opinions
  • Wait
  • Economists

• Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Kids

• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Art
  • Value

• I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Myself
  • Imagine
  • I Can

• I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Will
  • Saying
  • Release

• I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • Experience

• Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.

  

  Quintilian

• Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Congratulations

• If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;If ever wife was happy in a man,Compare with me ye women if you can.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Wife

• Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Hand
  • Winning
  • Mad

• When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Soul

• Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Hate
  • Joy

• As a kid, I was creative and unique, and I've had that my whole life.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Life
  • Unique

• Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • motivation
  • Depends

• 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 that any longer.

  

  John Mackey