John Mackey
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Similarly with suppliers, they don't have to supply.
They don't, you know, they'll like you.
They don't have to trade with you at all.
Trading is always voluntary for mutual gain.
Same thing with investors.
They don't have to invest their capital.
Communities that we're part of.
So all the stakeholders matter.
And so stakeholders, once you realize that, then you can see, wow,
They're all interdependent.
They're all connected together.
Can we create strategies where all the stakeholders are simultaneously winning?
Customers are benefiting, suppliers are benefiting, employees are benefiting, investors are benefiting.
A win-win-win.
That's the beautiful thing about business and capitalism, which people don't understand.
It has the potential to be a win-win-win system.
that has an upward spiral indefinitely.
That's why capitalism has led to so much progress in the world.
It's totally misunderstood.
It's been branded by its enemies, the Marxists, the socialists, wrongly and inaccurately.