Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

I love building a team around me, and being able to support a group of people is one of the best feelings I've come to know during my career; I imagine this is what a lot of business owners can relate to this.

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.

I have been helped over and over by wonderful men and women in my career. Men help each other all the time, and that kind of inclusion among women can create similar success.

The great secret in life, I think, is to choose the right, people around you to do the job.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

I'm just trying to be the best I can be. I try to surround myself with people who are strong in areas I'm weak. Which is why I have such a big staff.

I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.

My wife has her own career and has been successful as well. The key for our success is mutual support for each other.

My producer for the first 'Kung Fu Panda' movie, Melissa Cobb, is an amazing woman. She's supersmart and helps push everyone - male, female, anyone - to do their best.

Starting early in life and in school, we need to ensure women develop the confidence and capabilities to work in a team that will allow them to reach the heights of leadership.

To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

It's fun working with smart, young women.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.