"John: Hey, I'm not a hippie I'm not right wing. Anything you've read about me is mostly bullshit. [Laughter] John: So hopefully you'll form your own opinions based in my talk today. John: [Pause] This..."

"So I do think we need new paradigms for the way we think about business, and the way we think about capitalism. Someday, historians are gonna look back on the 20th century, and their gonna see that a ..."

"Capitalism was still greatly mistrusted. And corporations who I believe are the most influential institution of the world are widely perceived as greedy, selfish and exploitative. And they are certain..."

"capitalism is what we should be doing. So, conscious capitalism is based on four primary principles of economics. Secure property rights, freedom of contracts, freedom of trade and the rule of law. Co..."

"If you go to a cocktail party and you ask people what the purpose of a business is -- do this experiment sometime -- you'll find 99% of the time people will say, "what do you mean what the purpose of ..."

"He was on fire about software. He had a vision of everyone having their own personal computer. And that was an incredibly revolutionary idea. Let me ask -- quick poll here, how many people have their ..."

"The great companies in this world have great purposes. Think about the companies that you most admire, scratch the surface and you will find they are trying to fulfill a deeper or higher purpose. They..."

"beautiful. We talk about the heroic courage to do what it right, to change or improve the world. Bill Gates at Microsoft and now with the Gates foundation. Muhammad Yunus with the Grameem, Grameem ban..."

"The metaphors that we use to think about business are not good metaphors. One, going back to Adam Smith and the industrial revolution in terms of business being like a machine. You put in land, labor ..."

"What is conscious leadership? Conscious leadership fills the deeper purpose of the organization, create value for the inter-dependant stakeholders, and to be a servant leader to the enterprise. What d..."

"So, conscious leadership focuses on synergies, not on the trade offs. I'm heading off a question that I will get. What about the trade offs and the conflicts that you have between the various stakehol..."

"So I've embraced this myself. These are the seven core values of Whole Foods that are at the center of everything that we do. Just real quickly, in terms of those core values. Selling the highest qual..."

"These are some of the innovations we've done. It'd be interesting to go into these in some detail but for lack of time, I'm not. Self managing teams, offered salary information, salary cap benefits, i..."

"Without the fuel, there would be no progress. Whole Foods has tried to do its part. We've been the fastest growing publically traded food retailer for the past ten years. 8 billion in sales, our same ..."

"In the last 15 years alo -- alone in India and Chine, literally hundreds of millions of people have been able to escape from poverty. I do not believe suppliers are supposed to be beaten up, I believe..."

"Good citizens in their local communities, their national communities and the global communities. I think philanthropy is consistent with citizenship and I also believe that philanthropy is not theft f..."

"year history that has created better team member moral than this. So for a mere 10 million dollars, we've received hundreds of millions of dollars of good will with our team member base and with our c..."

"Hopefully for everybody else to begin to use. [Pause] John: More time, I'd go into more detail about this system, no time. Conscious capitalism and not for profit organizations, what does this have to..."

"does it look familiar? [Audience Mumbles] John: It should, it looks -- it's exactly the same as the conscious enterprise model that I showed with Whole Foods. The only difference is that -- at the cor..."

"Possibly your ability to empathize can extend to all mammals, perhaps even to all sentient beings and perhaps even to all life. That is the potential that humanities have, humanity have. Conscious bus..."

"Here's what I wanna see happen in the 21st, that we will evolve from this to this. From profit focus to purpose focus. From only shareholding -- shareholders winning to all stakeholders winning. From ..."

"thank you very much. [Applause] John: Alright, I did save a little time for questions."

"[Applause] John: Alright, I did save a little time for questions. I did rapidly go through a lot of that stuff. So, how are we doing the questions? Mike, am I gonna call on people, are the mikes being..."

"wouldn't even know where to begin. I will say though that, in essence to your question, you have to grow as a human being and as a leader or you hold your business back. I've been forced to grow, relu..."

"Next Question. >>So you might have to be cagey again here. John: I don't want to talk about climate change, or healthcare reform. [Laughter] >>OK. So, I don't necessarily agree with this argument, but..."

"First of all cuz they probably won't pick the ideas that you agree with anyway. So, I don't want to live in a society where government is telling us how businesses should operate. I think that the mar..."

"And so we're doing lots of things now, like. We have our animal welfare rating system. We're gonna put all of our -- everybody we buy meat from which is thousands and thousands of people will have to ..."

"So if you're smaller, it's a lot harder to do that. So, there is fraud that goes on in business I'm sorry to say. And, so that was one of our challenges we had to deal with. Next question. Sean: Hi, S..."

"So I don't >> My question surrounds Leonard Greens lessons in Whole Foods in 2008 and how you came to the decision to take private equity capital. And how that partnership has helped your business to ..."