Indra Nooyi
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!
India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.
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.
An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.Collection: Being Yourself
Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence.Collection: Known
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.Collection: Doe
If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.Collection: Organization
Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.Collection: Coaching
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.Collection: Husband
I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself.Collection: Asks
The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.Collection: Helping Others
Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.Collection: Self
If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.Collection: Giving Up
Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.Collection: Doe
The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.Collection: Careers
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Giving
At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person.Collection: Motivational
My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.Collection: Dream
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything elseCollection: Organization
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.Collection: Jobs
Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take action now. PepsiCo has already taken actions in our operations and throughout our supply chain to 'future- proof' our company-all of which deliver real cost savings, mitigate risk, protect our license to operate, and create resilience in our supply chain.Collection: Real
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 dreamCollection: Dream
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or presidentCollection: Mother
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.Collection: Couple
I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.Collection: Family
In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I think the amount of longer conversations that radiated more warmth may have gone down.Collection: Thinking
Blogging is a great way to provide tips and advice to each other.Collection: Advice
PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differentlyCollection: Senior