“If you don’t give people a chance to fail, you won’t innovate. If you want to be an innovative company, allow people to make mistakes.”
"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 to 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."
- Indra Nooyi
Awareness
"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
Balance
"We’ve got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide – and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions."
- Indra Nooyi
Teamwork
"As a CEO, I am finding that I have to become a learning CEO. I have to go to school all the time because I am learning new skills that I need to run this company and I am realizing that I am not equipped to just coast. I have to constantly renew my skills."
- Indra Nooyi
Learning
"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
Leadership
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning from Mistakes
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."
- Confucius Kongzi
Learning from Mistakes
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
Learning from Mistakes
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Every defeat every heartbreak every loss contains its own seed, Its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
- Og Mandino
Learning from Mistakes