Paul Polman Quotes

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your idea is going to be embraced, and even if it isn't, that everyone is going to work on it as hard as they can, then that's a great thing.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

What you want to do is put people in a position where they feel connected enough to you that they're willing to collaborate with you; they're willing to show you the things that they were scared to tell you about before.

Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner's whims every now and then, and that's a two-way street.

When you are working with likeminded people, then there are no pretences.

You've just got to believe in and trust everyone in your team, and no doubt they will, too.

The biggest thing that I learned is when you're building something - especially a project that requires partners - you have to make sure that there is a lot of overlapping desire and a lot of overlapping alignment with the people that you're doing work with.

I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.

Good alliances are made of strong, capable partners.

Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.