Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes
What is success? 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. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
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Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
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My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.
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Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.
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What is success? 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. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
