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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.
— John Mackey
Tags: meet, own, my-own, business

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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
Tags: way, will, culture, you
At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.
— John Mackey
Tags: company, want, team, vote
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
Tags: need, true, culture, good
We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It's kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market.
— John Mackey
Tags: organic, going, well, food
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
Tags: person, capitalism, sometimes, time
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