Top 30 Paul Polman Quotes
#1. If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
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#2. In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d.
Stephen Inwood
#3. Launching an innovative premium jelly bouillon into a highly competitive market at the height of austerity, for example, might not have been thought the wisest move. Yet with people eating out less, the demand for high-quality convenience products that enable people to cook at home has grown. As
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#5. It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
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#6. Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it's supposed to be, and I realized that I didn't need to take that seriously.
George Lucas
#7. I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.
Demetri Martin
#8. We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.
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#9. I'm always interested in new things. I don't go seeking out every band I can hear because there are too many, especially now with the Internet. There's no way you can collect everything.
Chris Reifert
#10. The world we want is an enormous responsibility.
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#11. I think loss isolates a person. Everybody is far too nervous to ask you how you feel, in case you have a breakdown in front of them. It's much easier not to say anything and hope the pain goes away quickly and quietly.
Victoria Connelly
#12. Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again - but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.
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#13. I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.
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#14. What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
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#15. Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.
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#16. As impossibly paradoxical as is seems, is it possible that our limp is the very thing that allows us to run? And without a limp, could we in reality run?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.
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#18. Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.
Brennan Manning
#19. We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both
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#20. It was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy
Elizabeth Gilbert
#21. Futility is in the eye of the beholder.
Dean Koontz
#22. I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
Rene Burri
#24. My fear is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.
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#25. Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050
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#26. To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
Horace Mann
#27. This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.
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#28. There's joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be had from hearing the darkest tune and discovering you're equal to it.
Richard Powers
#29. Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
Michael Moore
#30. When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.
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