Indra Nooyi Quotes

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

Leadership is hard to train on.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.