Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Related Quotes:
" It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency. "
John Mackey
Competition
Get
Out
" 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
" 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
Need
Government
Create
" 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
Purpose
You
Live
" 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. "
John Mackey
Time
Capitalism
Fall
" 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
" 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
" 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
Life
End
Day
" 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. "
John Mackey
Feel
People
Need
" 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
Food
Health
Me
" Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater. "
John Mackey
Powerful
Capitalism
Progress
" Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those. "
John Mackey
Service
Good
Food
" Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well. "
John Mackey
Time
Measure
You
" One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams. "
John Mackey
Important
Organized
The Most Important
" Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. "
John Mackey
Care
Best
Service
" 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. "
John Mackey
Purpose
Children
Destiny
" I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential. "
John Mackey
Think
Potential
People
" Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other. "
John Mackey
Different
Human
Sometimes
" 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
" Healthier team members get a bigger food discount. We give our sickest team members an option to go through what we call the Total Health Immersion, where we take them off for a week, and we do intensive diet-and-lifestyle education. "
John Mackey
Go
Health
Week
" 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
" 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. "
John Mackey
Down
Sky
You
" 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. "
John Mackey
Looking
Meaning
College
" 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
People
Value
Business
" 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
Need
True
Culture
" 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. "
John Mackey
Cancer
Believe
Heart
" 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
Fun
Doing
Garbage
" 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
Pay
Jobs
More
" 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
Health
Brand
Food
" The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together. "
John Mackey
Business
Together
Things