102 Quotes by John Mackey

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

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    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.

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

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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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    Back then, before the Internet, you had these paper catalogs that you ordered all the food from. So, we flipped through the catalogs, looked up the food we wanted, called them up, and they would show up in trucks.

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    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.

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