“When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really be the force that can make the changes that need to be made.”

We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry’s

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives – when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

The key to growing a business is that you need to be meeting some segment of the consumer’s needs. If you’ve got a small business and a product or service that is not popular, you simply have to change your product or service to be more popular.

Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.

I don’t believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

If you’re aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids’ health care and schooling.

It’s crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we’re spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

We learned that a product doesn’t sell just because you’re trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.

As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.

To be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK.

I’m a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument.

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance.

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Painting is self-discovery.

Construct well being or produce illness in your self.