Indra Nooyi
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And 45 years later, we can look back and say, huh, who proposed to whom again?
Maybe that's the reason we're happily married because we started to date each other after we got married.
And we started to discover each other after we got married.
So we had that long process of discovery.
And in spite of that, we kind of liked each other, loved each other.
It's mom, dad, grandfather, the whole extended family.
It's not just the mother.
And I think that it was a focus on excellence and doing well.
It was sort of beaten to us.
If you're going to do something, do it well.
If you can't get good grades, then what's your value to society?
What are you going to do for society?
So it was always this thing about push yourself.
Don't sit idle.
Satan has worked for idle hands.
If you can read in every spare minute, do it.
That's the environment we grew up in.
And we couldn't go complain to somebody else because our entire community was that way.
And so you sit there going, who am I going to complain to?
If I complain to an aunt or an uncle, they'll say, oh, I'm doing the same with my kids.