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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.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Work Together Government

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

John Mackey Best Leader Great

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

John Mackey Sky Sun Slow

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

John Mackey Leadership People Think

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey People Plant Diet

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.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Responsibility Giving

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

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Problems Healthy Solution

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Good Good Health Plan

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

John Mackey Marriage Food Philosophy

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.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Technology World Pride

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Life Reality Me

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

John Mackey Love Time Cooking

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Business Challenge Small

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

John Mackey World You Irrelevant

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

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Making Money Nothing Wrong

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

John Mackey Good Health Thought

We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

~ John Mackey

John Mackey Health Live Company

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

John Mackey Life College Long
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