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" I don't have a problem crying when I need to cry. "

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" I've always been bothered by systems that don't work for everybody. It doesn't mean we're all equal. I am not naive about that. But we should have a more inclusive society. "

" For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked. "

" If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create. "

" When the climate hurts, people and businesses also feel the pain. "

" At Unilever, we operate in 190 countries with two billion people using our products daily. We take climate seriously because we know that it impacts those two billion people - and that means it impacts us, too. "

" It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets. "

" Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health. "

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" As CEO of Unilever, my personal mission is to galvanize our company to be an effective force for good. "

" Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too. "

" The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation. "

" When we empower women, society benefits, grows, and thrives. "

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, people will follow you or people will be energised by you if they buy into your vision or purpose. So the most important thing is to be true to yourself. That's why I would say to be a great leader - you, first and foremost, have to be a great human being. And sharing that purpose and sharing the values. "

" Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights. "

" Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture. "

" Why would you invest in a company which is out of synch with the needs of society, that does not take its social compliance in its supply chain seriously, that does not think about the costs of externalities or of its negative impacts on society? "

" I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production. "

" The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance. "

" Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly. "

" Land is a great example of how we can manage and invest in sustainable infrastructure for economic, social, and environmental gains. Its use - and misuse - is at the heart of the challenge for food, fuel, and fibre. "

" My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher. "

" We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway climate change without creating wealth in a more equitable and less carbon intensive way. "

" Simply put, the low-carbon economy is better for growth. "

" I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state. "

" Unilever has been around for 100-plus years. We want to be around for several hundred more years. "

" Leading businesses are making large strides in ensuring a sustainable future, but ultimately, they can only do so much. "

" Often people ask me what my job is, and I say, honestly, it is to make others successful, and the more you do that, the more you will see that you create prosperity. "

" Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business. "

" 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. "