Ben and I built Ben & Jerry's on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment. |
Business can be a source of progressive change. |
Cherry Garcia (named for Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia) came from a customer. And Chunky Monkey, and a lot of others. |
get rid of that mind set. |
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. |
I'm happy that Ben & Jerry's is still able to do things autonomously. |
I'm just against a road being dumped into a community with no plans to take it anyplace else. |
If it's melted, it's ruined. |
If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation. |
If your support the community, they will support you. |
It?s good all around. It?s great working with an organization like Goodwill. On a day like today, there?s free ice cream and you can?t beat that. |
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. |
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. |
One out of every 100 family's in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's. |
The mayor asked me to come to a meeting. I had no idea of what it was all about till I got there. |