Dutch - Businessman | July 11, 1956 -
Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other.
Paul Polman
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We all have responsibility to stop violence and discrimination against women, whether it's in our businesses, in our homes, or on our streets.
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Too often, we are being programmed by the environment around us to behave differently. But I think a true leader is an authentic person who feels good about who he is.
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There are billions of people in the world who deserve the better quality of life that products such as soap, shampoo, and clean drinking water can provide.
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The planet's forests are essential for life.
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Companies are the first to see the costs of climate change.
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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.
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My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.
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For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked.
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The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.
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As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people's behaviour.
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When women are provided with training and entrepreneurial opportunities in distribution networks, they become role models in their communities, showing it is possible to challenge limiting norms and stereotypes, and to succeed.
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