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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.
- John Mackey
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#Enough
#Milk
#Way
#Will
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
#Business
#Exist
#Live
#Profit
#Purpose
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.
- John Mackey
#Believe
#Better
#Business
#Value
#World
We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
- John Mackey
#Company
#Health
#Insurance
#Legal
#Live
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
#About
#Boast
#Longer
#Whole
#Wrong
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
#Ability
#Eating
#Food
#Responsibility
In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people over the years. I still think communication is important, but I don't think there's always a correlation between being a great communicator and other virtues that make for a great leader.
- John Mackey
#Best
#Communication
#Great
#Important
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
#Intelligence
#Leadership
#True
#Way
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
#Diet
#Food
#Live
#Plant
#Vegetables
I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
- John Mackey
#Free
#Live
#People
#Society
#Sometimes
We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.
- John Mackey
#Global
#More
#Order
#Pay
#Possible
Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.
- John Mackey
#Action
#Feel
#News
#Page
#Through
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.
- John Mackey
#Believe
#Business
#Good
#Poverty
#Value
It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.
- John Mackey
#Competition
#Complacency
#Get
#Out
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.
- John Mackey
#Capitalism
#Humanity
#Improvement
#Value
As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.
- John Mackey
#Company
#Evolve
#Potential
#Purpose
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.
- John Mackey
#Country
#Create
#Government
#New
#Will
At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lobster, the quality of life that it lives - even if it's not as long - as the quality of your life.
- John Mackey
#Day
#End Of The Day
#Life
#Long
#Quality
Whole Foods has a good health care plan.
- John Mackey
#Care
#Good Health
#Good
#Health
#Plan
Shopping for groceries for most people is like a chore. It's like doing the laundry or taking out the garbage. And we strive to make shopping engaging, fun and interactive.
- John Mackey
#Doing
#Fun
#People
#Shopping
#Strive
I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
- John Mackey
#Believe
#I Believe That
#Result
#Time
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
- John Mackey
#Business
#Government
#Society
#Work
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
#Globalization
#Heritage
#Technology
#Travel
#World
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
#Argument
#Environmental
#Good
#Health
A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.
- John Mackey
#Diet
#Important
#Our
#Problems
#Solution
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