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Whole Foods has a good health care plan.
I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.
People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.
I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.
It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.
There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.
We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.
Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.
I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.
Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.
As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.
I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.
The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.
One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.
Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.
At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.
Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together.
Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.
I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.
I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.
If you're growing very rapidly, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, in a way, because the growth kind of bails you out.
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.
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.
I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
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.
The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.
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.
I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
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.
I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.
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.
The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
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.
Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.
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.
I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.