Paul Polman Quotes

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

Change demands new learning.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old.

Every job I take, I really want to learn something.

Don't be afraid to learn on the job. No matter how much preparation you've done, the tech industry is changing so fast that we're all learning every day.

I've primarily worked with actors the same age as me for the past four years, so working with somebody who is 10 years younger than me, you learn a whole different set of skills.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

You cannot be a one-trick pony all the time. You have to grow your game.

It wasn't until I got out in the world and started worked professionally when I realized that the people I admired were the ones who had taken the little snippets of what they learned that worked for them - and strung them together in their own technique.

I have gained experience over the years, but learning will keep happening in every game.

Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system.

I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.