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 cookcookercut share on social
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 companyhealthinsurance Change image and share on social
I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential. John Mackey diseasefreegenetic Change image and share on social
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. John Mackey freelivepeople Change image and share on social
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater. John Mackey aspirecapitalismcompel share on social
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. John Mackey analyticapproachbusiness Change image and share on social
My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark. John Mackey accountcallceo share on social
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those. John Mackey customerdeliverexperience Change image and share on social
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 accuratelygeneralhike Change image and share on social
I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it. John Mackey americacontributedecade share on social
