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" Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses. "

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" There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring. "

" 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. "

" One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams. "

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" I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually. "

" The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together. "

" Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those. "

" I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working. "

" 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. "

" I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place. "

" As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose. "

" 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. "

" Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution. "

" 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. "

" Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name. "

" I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn. "

" 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. "

" Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases. "

" Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure. "

" I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.' "

" I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job. "