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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. "
Paul Polman
Life
World
Woman
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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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" Consumers in both emerging and developed markets want it all - high-performing products, the right price, and a purpose that they can connect with. "
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" We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part. "
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" Many businesses understand the advantages of gender parity. "
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" I do not work for the shareholder, to be honest. I work for the customer. "
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" The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation. "
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" Unilever has been around for 100-plus years. We want to be around for several hundred more years. "
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Around
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" In certain cases, empowering women starts with making their lives easier and removing unnecessary burdens. "
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" If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers and indigenous people, more prosperous rural economies, and above all, a more stable climate. "
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People
" For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked. "
Paul Polman
Doing
Cases
Business
" When we empower women, society benefits, grows, and thrives. "
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Empower
Society
" If the short-term decisions you make damage the long term, you should resist those. But there are many short-term decisions that you need to make to be a successful manager. "
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Successful
Need
You
" When the climate hurts, people and businesses also feel the pain. "
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Also
People
Pain
" Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights. "
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Responsibility
Business
Opportunity
" Companies are the first to see the costs of climate change. "
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See
Change
Climate Change
" 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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End
Business
Truth
" Forest nations willing to do more than their fair share to solve the climate crisis should be rewarded through results-based payments. "
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Crisis
Fair
Forest
" There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed. "
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Same
Succeed
Needs
" 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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Leader
Good
Environment
" Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness. "
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Together
Humility
Working Together
" It is our responsibility as businesses to deliver ambitious solutions and technologies to bring us low-carbon, inclusive and sustainable growth. "
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Inclusive
Bring
Growth
" 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. "
Paul Polman
People
Know
Daily
" I see business as an ecosystem. "
Paul Polman
Ecosystem
I See
Business
" 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. "
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Society
Long
Criticism
" 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. "
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Ethics
Hard Work
Work
" 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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Young
Business
Together
" Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture. "
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Better
Through
Agriculture
" 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. "
Paul Polman
Will
Government
Drive
" The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change. "
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Environmental
Food
Challenges
" Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a chance to design the building blocks of our daily routines, the infrastructure that will support and accompany us for the years to come - from the trains and trams we ride, the offices we work in, to the energy that powers our homes. "
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Change
Daily
Live