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" 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
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Just
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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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" 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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Need
True
Culture
" At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community. "
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" Whole Foods has a good health care plan. "
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" I was in my early 20s and open to alternative lifestyles. I thought, 'I bet you get a lot of attractive, interesting women in a vegetarian co-op.' "
John Mackey
You
Women
Thought
" The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time. "
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Lead
Over
Right
" At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. "
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Members
Company
Want
" I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential. "
John Mackey
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Potential
People
" I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm. "
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Down
Sky
You
" You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative. "
John Mackey
Business
People
Selfish
" 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
More
Think
Environmental
" 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. "
John Mackey
Follow
Run
Time
" 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
Culture
You
Will
" 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
Want
Think
" 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
Cooking
Love
Travel
" Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar. "
John Mackey
Sugar
Day
Bag
" 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. "
John Mackey
Health
People
Government
" It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them. "
John Mackey
Apple
Change
Cheating
" I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don't owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. "
John Mackey
Fact
You
Taxes
" 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
People
Think
Leadership
" Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure. "
John Mackey
Stop
Change
Way
" 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. "
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Natural
Market
Well
" 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. "
John Mackey
Kind
Games
Year
" Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me. "
John Mackey
Business
Magic
Me
" 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
Better
Business
Believe
" The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more responsible citizens we can be for the environment. It's all interactive. It's all connected together. There's no separation. "
John Mackey
Together
Community
Environment
" Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those. "
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Service
Good
Food
" Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist. "
John Mackey
Energy
Focus
Mind
" I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place. "
John Mackey
Millennials
Better
Place
" 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
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Great
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