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Indra Nooyi's mantras for success
September 12, 2008
If there is (a glass ceiling), remember it is made of glass and it can be easily broken. All you have to do is try.
The best test is that I wake up every morning dying to come to work.
My parents and my grandfather taught me that when you do a job, you got to do it better than everybody else. Simple. You cannot let anybody down.
When you don't have a safety net, when you don't have money to buy clothes for interviews and you are going to a summer job in saris, all of a sudden life gives you a wakeup call and you realise that you have got to work extremely hard to make it happen for you.
I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to and encouraged us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. She made me learn Indian classical music because that's what good Indian girls did, but she also let me be in a rock band. 'You've got to be a good Indian woman first,' she said, 'but go ahead and dream.'
Image: US Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama (R) greets Indra Nooyi (L) and Google CEO Eric Schmidt (C) during a meeting with some of his top economic advisors at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. | Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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