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We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

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.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

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.

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.

A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

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 think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.

Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.

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

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.'

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.

I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.

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've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

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

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.

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.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.

One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.

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.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.