Indra Nooyi Quotes

You can't be a professor without having been a student. You can't be a consultant without having been a research associate. So, if you outsource the least sophisticated jobs, at some stage, the next step of the ladder has to follow.

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.

As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different opportunities.

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

Eight years of steady acting training nonstop... three years in the profession. And I'm still in the apprentice mode and I'm still watching everybody and learning.

At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

I had a really regular progression--and this is really pleasant, I think--because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get...experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as a professional. I am on it, all the time, never stop thinking, learning. You don't get to be world champion unless you do that.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.