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At the 2014 Shareholders meeting, NCPPR [National Center for Public Policy Research] asked Apple to pledge that Apple would not pursue environmental initiatives unless they helped increase profit. Cook did not hesitate. Even though some environmental policies can be good for the bottom line, “we do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive,” Cook said. “We want to leave the world better than we found it.” And anyone who objects? “Get out of the stock.”

At the Shareholder meeting, Tim Cook was speaking specifically to the NCPPR representative, with their one share of stock, who was trying to get Tim Cook to make a statement disavowing the STOCK HOLDER's VOTE of 97-3 ratio just earlier that day REJECTING the NCPPR's proposal to ONLY spend company funds on projects and only join organizations that would have a positive impact on the company's bottom line.

Tim Cook, properly refused to reject the Stockholders' decision, after providing a list of things that Apple does like provide Braille support in iOS and OS X, Educational support to schools, scholarships, and ecological concerns, stated, looking DIRECTLY AT THE PERSON MAKING THE DEMAND, that if he did not like those things, he could take his investment elsewhere. IT was not directed to all Apple investors except in the NCPPR's propaganda piece. . . which was the sole source for that claim.

Others attending that question and answer session describe what happened just as I described above.