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John Mackey Quotes

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977 Picture Quote #1
Whole Foods has a good health care plan Picture Quote #1
People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt Picture Quote #1
I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time Picture Quote #1
More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve Picture Quote #1
The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage Picture Quote #1
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Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those Picture Quote #1
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 society have been distorted Picture Quote #1
One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don’t seem to be impacting it any longer Picture Quote #1
Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one’s ideological biases wish to see Picture Quote #1
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 food Picture Quote #1
I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that’s not always true the other way around Picture Quote #1
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Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn’t exist Picture Quote #1
When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who’ve already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the... into the store Picture Quote #1
When I’m hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive Picture Quote #1
I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn’t understand why everybody couldn’t be equally prosperous Picture Quote #1
People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It’s kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
You can’t live if you don’t eat, but you don’t live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be Picture Quote #1
I’ve always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don’t think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose Picture Quote #1
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Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name Picture Quote #1
Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
I think for any small business that’s bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow Picture Quote #1
The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time Picture Quote #1
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they’ll stop having pleasure Picture Quote #1
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I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977  (John Mackey Quotes) Whole Foods has a good health care plan  (John Mackey Quotes) People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt  (John Mackey Quotes) I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time.  (John Mackey Quotes) More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve.  (John Mackey Quotes) The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.  (John Mackey Quotes) Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.  (John Mackey Quotes) 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 society have been distorted.  (John Mackey Quotes) One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don’t seem to be impacting it any longer.  (John Mackey Quotes) Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one’s ideological biases wish to see.  (John Mackey Quotes) 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 food.  (John Mackey Quotes) I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that’s not always true the other way around.  (John Mackey Quotes) Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn’t exist.  (John Mackey Quotes) When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who’ve already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the... into the store.  (John Mackey Quotes) When I’m hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.  (John Mackey Quotes) I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn’t understand why everybody couldn’t be equally prosperous.  (John Mackey Quotes) People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.  (John Mackey Quotes) 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.  (John Mackey Quotes) We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It’s kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market.  (John Mackey Quotes) 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.  (John Mackey Quotes) You can’t live if you don’t eat, but you don’t live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.  (John Mackey Quotes) I’ve always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don’t think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.  (John Mackey Quotes) 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.  (John Mackey Quotes) As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.  (John Mackey Quotes) Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.  (John Mackey Quotes) Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it  (John Mackey Quotes) 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.  (John Mackey Quotes) I think for any small business that’s bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.  (John Mackey Quotes) The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time  (John Mackey Quotes) Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they’ll stop having pleasure.  (John Mackey Quotes)
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