Indra Nooyi Quotes

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.

Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

Blogging is a great way to provide tips and advice to each other.

Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job.

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself.

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.

Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.