Quotes by Paul Polman

Paul Polman

I don’t have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don’t worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.

Blessing

Life Is Too Short

Silly

I don’t think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world’s citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.

Believe

Opposites

Thinking

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Achievement

Business

Failure

If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn’t even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It’s going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn’t attract the best people, and it certainly doesn’t create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.

Long

Mother

Years

Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.

Needs

Past

Years

It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

Billions

Hungry

People

Leadership is not just about giving energy … it’s unleashing other people’s energy.

Energy

Giving

People

Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or thinking it’s totally acceptable to make a T-shirt from a collapsing factory. Increasingly, people don’t want to work for these companies, and consumers don’t want to buy from them.

Horse

People

Thinking

My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date – be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.

Bars

Technology

Useless

My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don’t worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.

Able

Running

Worry

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Able

Achievement

Bars

Believe

Billions

Blessing

Business

Careers

Challenges

Choices

Desire

Economic

Energy

Failure

Fighting

Giving

Goods

Government

Growth

Horse

Hungry

Impact

Inspiring

Interviews

Jobs

Lenses

Levels

Life Is Too Short

Long

Looks

Mother

Moving

Needs

Opposites

Oxygen

Past

People

Profit

Race

Real

Responsibility

Running

Salary

Self

Shows

Silly

Skills

Technology

Thinking

Useless

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Quotes by Paul Polman

Paul Polman

I don’t have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don’t worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.

It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

Leadership is not just about giving energy … it’s unleashing other people’s energy.

My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date – be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.

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