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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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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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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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the 'Don't Buy This Jacket' campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space.
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Nobody really knows my true feelings on a lot of issues.
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
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The reporting has always been what drives me.
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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.
