Indra Nooyi

You can't just come home and start bossing your kids around because they say, I don't work for you, mom.

My kids have told me that.

Stop treating us like we work for you.

Don't give us instructions.

And so it's not that I talk to my, the people who work for me that way, but somehow they interpreted it as I just sit there in a chair and I boss people around.

Little did they know, but they would say, we don't work for you.

I said, no, I understand.

And so I think that all that she was telling me was just constantly remind yourself as to all the roles you play.

And don't just think that you can walk away from any of those roles because you made those choices yourself.

There's nothing called balance.

What balance?

You know, anytime you use the word balance, I think of this beam sitting on a fulcrum that's perfectly still.

It doesn't exist.

It's juggling all those roles.

It's not even harmony.

Sometimes it's not very harmonious.

You just juggle those roles and hope the most important balls every day don't fall and crash and burn.

So that's all you do.

They're all full-time roles, each one of them.

You've got to start off by saying, look, the job is a selfish thing.