{"author":"John Mackey","author_id":"John+Mackey","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["people","plant","diet "],"id":25066,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["good","health","thought "],"id":32174,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["making money","nothing","wrong "],"id":43352,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["life","college","long "],"id":52151,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"Whole Foods has a good health care plan.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["good","good health","plan "],"id":144214,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["love","time","cooking "],"id":159159,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["work","together","government "],"id":203064,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["responsibility","giving "],"id":219083,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Mackey","tags":["best","leader","great "],"id":233553,"author_id":"John+Mackey"},{"text":"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. ","author":"John Mackey","tags":["business","time","customer "],"id":258826,"author_id":"John+Mackey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}