I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

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.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

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.

If you support the community, they will support you.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

The vision is always for the appointed time. Though it tarry, it will not fail. It shall surely come to pass in perfect moment.

Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret.

Teach your employees how to build relationships with your customers.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.