Ben and I built Ben & Jerry's on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment.
"Jerry Greenfield" is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's/ Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973. He applied unsuccessfully for medical school in two successive years, 1973 and 1974.
In 1978 Greenfield and his friend Ben Cohen (ice cream)/Ben Cohen opened Ben and Jerry's Homemade ice cream scoop shop in an old gas station in downtown Burlington, Vermont. The company has since opened almost 200 franchising/franchised shops and reports earnings of $237 million annually.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous businessmen! More Jerry Greenfield on Wikipedia.If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.
Business can be a source of progressive change.
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.
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.
Get rid of that mind set.
We added value to the company by doing business the way we did it. There is a spiritual aspect to business.
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.
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