“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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

Steroids are] not healthy, … There’s a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it’s a concern we have to take as a college-level group.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.

I support love any healthy way you can get it.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It’s not always that way in the West.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

Every record we do there are always two camps. There’s the camp that’s like, “I love it. It sounds different than the last one.”

You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.