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John Mackey Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 15, 1953

Topics

Action Feel News Lens Page Become

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

Food You Eat Industrial Get Wanna

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

Business Storm Impact Early Phone

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

Success Great Feeling Understand

Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.

Music Bible Speak You Hip-Hop Try

It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters.

Music Great Money Quality Down Own

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Life Success Me Think My Life Going

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

Never Got Southern Like Gothic Did

I'm living the American dream.

American Dream American Dream Living

I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.

Life Change Time Face Easy Setbacks

I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

Believe Long Security Personal Own

We bought property after Iniki in '92. I figured we'd never find better bargains. As it turned out, we didn't get a bargain, but we did find the spot we wanted to live on. It actually took a couple years to secure that spot. Then, after we moved, it took over 10 years to start construction on the house. It's still a work in progress.

Work Live Progress Start Better

From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.

Great Child People Tongue Born Poor

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