John Mackey Quotes
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I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.
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Whole Foods has a good health care plan.
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Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.
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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 at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.
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There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.
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The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.
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People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.
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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 more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.
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Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.
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Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.
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What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.
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I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence,' and it's also been about 'food as health,' that food is vitality.
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As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.
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I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.
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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 the food we wanted, called them up, and they would show up in trucks.
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Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.
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Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.
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I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.
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I tell students and young professionals all the time to follow their hearts, do what they truly love, and if it's business, run it by being grounded in ethical consciousness.
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I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.
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Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.
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Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
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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 culture in, and then that old culture will convert the milk into yogurt.