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" The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself. "
John Mackey
Own
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You
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" 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. "
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" Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality food that's going to be better for your health and better for the environment. "
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" The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Health
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" If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.' "
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" There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring. "
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" 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. "
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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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Run
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" One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams. "
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" If you're growing very rapidly, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, in a way, because the growth kind of bails you out. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place. "
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" Whole Foods has a good health care plan. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. "
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" Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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