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" In certain cases, empowering women starts with making their lives easier and removing unnecessary burdens. "

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" Let's work together to make our economies strong and our climate sustainable. It can be done. "

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

" Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models. "

" The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better. "

" P&G started in 1837, Nestle in 1857. These companies have been around for so long because they are in tune with society. They are very responsible companies, despite the challenges that they sometimes deal with, all the criticism they get. "

" Empowering women is one of the most important things we - and indeed, every business - can do. "

" 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. "

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

" Africa is a vibrant, varied continent with a growing consumer base. "

" Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures. "

" Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest. "

" Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so. "

" The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" System-wide changes rely on a critical mass of interested parties, all willing to enter into deep partnerships and collaborations, founded on new levels of trust and a commitment to action, not debate. "

" Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness. "

Working Together

" 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. "

" Africa's vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit is un-matched. There's huge potential here to grow business, create jobs, and to improve living standards. "

" We all have responsibility to stop violence and discrimination against women, whether it's in our businesses, in our homes, or on our streets. "

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

" There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Forest nations willing to do more than their fair share to solve the climate crisis should be rewarded through results-based payments. "

" We need new, dynamic models for growth through the sharing economy, using big data to unlock new insights and adopting closed-loop cycles. "

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

" 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. "

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