I spend a lot of time in Austin and I love going to the Whole Foods corporate store in the downtown area. If you ever get to Austin, this is worth seeing. Anyway, John Mackey, Whole Foods' founder talks here about why he thinks business is, or can be, a moral thing.
I've never understood why people thought business was "greedy" or immoral in its pursuit of excellence. After all, business success just means that you've successfully solved some human problem. Money is the measure of your success but it isn't necessarily the end in and of itself. Mr. Mackey agrees and I admire his courage for actually speaking about it.
-Christopher
The Whole Foods founder talks about his Journal health-care op-ed that spawned a boycott, how he deals with unions, and why he thinks CEOs are overpaid."I
honestly don't know why the article became such a lightning rod," says
John Mackey, CEO and founder
of Whole Foods Market Inc., as he tries to
explain the firestorm caused by his August op-ed on these pages
opposing government-run health care. "I think a lot of people who got
angry haven't read what I actually wrote. There was a lot of emotional
reaction—fear and anger. I just wanted to get people to think about
whether there was a better way to reform the system."
Read the full WSJ article "The Conscience of a Capitalist" »
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