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Indra Nooyi Quotes

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.

– Indra Nooyi

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

At the end of the day, don’t forget that you’re a person, don’t forget you’re a mother, don’t forget you’re a wife, don’t forget you’re a daughter.

– Indra Nooyi

When I talk football with my friends, I don’t talk about Tom Brady’s hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don’t want pink jerseys, and I don’t want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan – because I am proud to be one.

– Indra Nooyi

I’ve been around the bend in corporations.

– Indra Nooyi

Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.

– Indra Nooyi

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

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.

– Indra Nooyi

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

– Indra Nooyi

Do you remember campaigns like ‘Keep America beautiful’? What about ‘Buckle up’? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let’s be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can – not grudgingly, but willingly.

– Indra Nooyi

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

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

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.

– Indra Nooyi

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

When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.

– Indra Nooyi

I don’t think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it’s a country issue. I don’t think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

– Indra Nooyi

When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don’t go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.

– Indra Nooyi

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

– Indra Nooyi

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

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

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

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

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