John Mackey Quotes

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

My best experience was my business training.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.

I did not want to write just another business book.

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.

I always try and watch how business people think. I like to read a lot about business people. I'm not going to say I've got a great business mind, but I enjoy learning from the world of business.

I am very passionate about this business, and I always have been.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

I have always been a business person.

Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.