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

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

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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.

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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.

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If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 15th, 1953

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