Ben Cohen Quotations

While I would have preferred for Ben and Jerry's to remain independent, I'm excited about this next chapter in the life of the business,

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.

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.

Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.

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.

Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

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

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance.

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!

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.

I can get my dog's hair cut, my wife can get her nails done, I can get a po' boy, but there's no place to get justice.

Business has never had improving the quality of life of the general public as one of its priorities.

He's been getting his hands on the ball and been very effective with it.

We know once the people there see how this money is spent, they will come to conclude on their own that it's right.

There's nothing like playing on stage in front of other people, and there are not many places like TCAN where kids under 18 can do that, or even go see the music.

isn't a short-term tack to drive sales. This is something that's important for us as a society to address.

People are willing to listen to her and we want to do as much as we can to make her voice heard.

They think they've got it greased by using well-connected lobbyists to slip this thing through the full House without following the normal procedures.

I am now really looking forward to the season. And why not? Absence makes the heart grow fonder,

This helps explain why the food industry has blocked any efforts to have hearings.