Paul Polman Quotes

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.

My mom always told me to set goals for myself. And slowly going through and checking those things off of my list, that feels like success to me.

The most important thing for me is the work, my job, and then to go to my house to be satisfied with my work.

Because at the end of the day, it's the most important thing that you do well, that you achieve goals that you want to achieve and where you want to go to as a club.

Now I'm at the Premier League and help my family. That's all that matters.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You want to win Super Bowls.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

As a team, the most important thing is results.

I chased my dream, worked hard for it, and now I am actually living that dream. This doesn't happen to everyone.

Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.

I've always dreamed big, and I've accomplished a lot of my dreams.

You don't have to give up your dreams in order to earn a living - they can go hand in hand.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'