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

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

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.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

The world we want is an enormous responsibility.

If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.

My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.