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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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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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.
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We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'
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When I was a player, I wanted to win the Ballon d'Or, but I knew my characteristics; I knew that it was impossible.
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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.
