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

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.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

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

Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.

When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.

Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.

The world we want is an enormous responsibility.

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.

it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built “The Breakers” he damned himself.

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.

The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

I don't like my physique at all.

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.