John Mackey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I remember telling one guy, one of my friends asked me my net worth one time, and I told him, and he says...
That's it?
For all you did with Whole Foods?
And I said, are you kidding?
I'm fabulously wealthy.
There's nothing I can't do in life.
And so it's always a good question to ask yourself.
How much do you really need?
In fact, I'm going to tell you a story.
This is one of my favorite stories.
You might have heard this one.
Did you know that Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, the author of Catch-22, were good friends?
They were good friends, and they were both writers.
So they're at this party on Long Island at a hedge fund.
Yeah.
at a party and they were there and Vonnegut was needling Heller.
He says, so Joe, you know the guy that owns this place?
He makes more money in a day than you've made for all the books you sold of Catch-22 and all your other books combined.
Every single day, he makes more money than you do.
What do you think about that?