Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Indra Nooyi
Point Of View
Walk
Know
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Indra Nooyi
You
Leadership
Leader
" 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%! "
Indra Nooyi
Women
Innovation
Process
" I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off. "
Indra Nooyi
Want
You
Relax
" I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products? "
Indra Nooyi
Medicine
Challenge
People
" I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company. "
Indra Nooyi
Think
Discipline
Good
" PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently. "
Indra Nooyi
Woman
Person
Senior
" After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back. "
Indra Nooyi
Give
Back
After
" Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India. "
Indra Nooyi
India
America
Drink
" What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it. "
Indra Nooyi
Work
Rome
Events
" I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else. "
Indra Nooyi
Organization
Drive
Important
" Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment. "
Indra Nooyi
Unemployment
Done
Going
" I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot. "
Indra Nooyi
Doing
I Am
Great
" BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world. "
Indra Nooyi
Work
World
Women
" My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn. "
Indra Nooyi
Play
Look
Picture
" Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. 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. "
Indra Nooyi
Real
Internet
Information
" Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much. "
Indra Nooyi
Three
World
Year
" When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing. "
Indra Nooyi
Job
Home
Internet
" 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. "
Indra Nooyi
Angry
Random
Positive
" 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. "
Indra Nooyi
Human
Positive
Him
" To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it. "
Indra Nooyi
You
Hands
Heart
" We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.' "
Indra Nooyi
Okay
Want
Unemployment
" There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way. "
Indra Nooyi
Way
Group
Meetings
" When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me! "
Indra Nooyi
America
Me
Cricket
" 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. "
Indra Nooyi
Company
You
Cake
" Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders. "
Indra Nooyi
Day
Worry
Say
" 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. "
Indra Nooyi
Learning
Way
You
" Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures. "
Indra Nooyi
People
Think
Home
" 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. "
Indra Nooyi
Leader
Great
Good
" The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do. "
Indra Nooyi
Medical
People
Best
" I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years. "
Indra Nooyi
Boston
America
Try