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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in. "

" More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve. "

" Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" Snatam Kaur is a yogini, and I find her music deeply spiritual. I feel more love and I feel more peace when I listen to her music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who've already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the... into the store. "

" The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time. "

" Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. "

" 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. "

" Whole Foods has a good health care plan. "

" Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time. "

" 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. "