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.

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

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.

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

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

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

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

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

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

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

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

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.

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

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

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

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

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

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.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

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

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