Indra Nooyi

We love the job.

We love working on challenges.

But when you have kids, you've got to understand it's a tether.

It's a beautiful tether, but it's a tether.

It's a loving tether, but it's a lifelong tether.

And so I think you should have kids only if you love having kids.

I mean, I adore my kids.

They may not think that always, but I just adore my kids.

I love them more than anything in this world.

And so does it cause angst at times?

Yeah, it does.

Do sometimes I sit down and say, God, I wish I could just work on this problem uninterrupted?

Yes.

But that tether comes with some responsibilities.

And so I have to have the resilience to balance all of those things.

So each of us as parents, working parents, have to find a way to manage all of these priorities and not lose ourselves.

So what you end up doing is giving up some of the things that you want to do for yourself.

Just forget them because you've got to see it through the eyes of your kids, through the eyes of your spouse, through the eyes of the job.

You have to morph into a new being.

That's the reality.