Dutch - Businessman | July 11, 1956 -
The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.
Paul Polman
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Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.
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There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed.
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Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.
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If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.
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I don't subscribe to, 'Here are the top ten tips to successful leadership,' or, 'How to learn leadership in ten minutes.' A leader is someone who gives positive energy to others which then results in a better change than would have happened. I think everyone is a leader.
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More and more businesses are seeing the potential of a more sustainable business model, driven both by the firm belief that business can be a force for good and by the realization that the cost of inaction often exceeds the cost of action - notably when it comes to the growing threat of climate change and water scarcity.
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We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all of them.
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We need new, dynamic models for growth through the sharing economy, using big data to unlock new insights and adopting closed-loop cycles.
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It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company - and it's very difficult to do - the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process.
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The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation.
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I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come.
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