Indra Nooyi Quotes

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.

I've always said, other than my dad, coaches had the greatest impact on me.

Ask yourself, how can I learn from the people around me. Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven't yet found a way to learn from them.

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.

It's so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don't think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Over the course of my life, there have been so many people who have invested in me and provided me with opportunities to grow.

I had good coaches and mentors. They helped me a lot, and I trusted them when they tapped on my shoulder to move to the next level. And maybe I've been smart enough to always say yes more than no when I've been proposed a new and challenging jobs.

I would like to praise all of my coaches, from Pep to the first I had as a kid, because all of them have helped make me who I am.

Obviously my parents have been a massive influence on me my whole career, taking me around everywhere and putting me in this position.