We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.
There are a lot of people who are going into business who are frustrated. The prevailing wisdom is that you can't have a successful business and use it to help society as well. People think If you try to have a business that tries to give to the people, it takes away from your ability to be successful financially.
When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.
Traffic is going to be absolutely horrendous. The plan makes sense, but the roads don't.
We added value to the company by doing business the way we did it. There is a spiritual aspect to business.
If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.
Its good all around. Its great working with an organization like Goodwill. On a day like today, theres free ice cream and you cant beat that.
One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.
We weren't very interested in venture capitalists. If we were going to have a business we were going to have one that was consistent with our values.
Neither of us could have anticipated twenty years ago that a major multi-international would some day sign on, enthusiastically, to pursue and expand the social mission that continues to be an essential part of Ben Jerry's and a driving force behind many of our successes.
I'm just against a road being dumped into a community with no plans to take it anyplace else.
Ben and I built Ben Jerry's on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment.
I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.
Business can be a source of progressive change.
If your support the community, they will support you.
The mayor asked me to come to a meeting. I had no idea of what it was all about till I got there.
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