Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.
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.
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
Leadership is not just about giving energy. . . it's unleashing other people's energy.
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.
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.
I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent. If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.