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"As a CEO, I am finding that I have to become a learning CEO. I have to go to school all the time because I am learning new skills that I need to run this company and I am realising that I am not equipped to just coast, I have to constantly renew my skills."
"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. As a leader I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future."
"Do you remember campaigns like Keep America Beautiful? What about ‘buckle up’? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let us be good industry that does 100% of what is possibly can-not grudgingly, but willingly."
"[moot issue is that ] we should talk about is not just lessons in leadership or what the leaders need to do today but what can India do to bring those leaders back to India, so India itself can become an even more powerful economy going forward."
"I am a mother first, then a CEO and then a wife."
"You cannot deliver value unless you anchor the company's values. Values make an unsinkable ship." Code of conduct goes beyond legal compliance and every employee needs to be well versed with it."
"There were many times that I felt like a fish out of water, times that I really said to myself, 'do I even fit in'."
"At the end of the day, don’t forget that you are a person, don’t forget you are a mother, don’t forget you are a wife, don’t forget you are a daughter. Because in the end, no matter how much money you make and how much success you create, What you are left is family, friends and faith."
"Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world."
"Each of us in the US - the long middle finger - must be careful that we extend our arm in either a business or political sense, we take pains to assure that we are giving a hand, not the finger. Unfortunately, I think this is how the reset of the world looks at the US right now. Not as part of the hand-giving strength and purpose to the rest of the fingers –but instead scratching our nose and sending a signal."
"I have an immigrant mentality, which is that the job can be taken away at any time, so make sure you earn it every day...immigrants come here they have no safety net-zero. I landed here with $500 in my pocket. I had no one here to pay for me."
"Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation."
"First, accept that turbulence is here to stay. Most successful companies are those that stay calm and think down to earth rather than showing aggressiveness to shorten the crisis period."
"Don’t take an eye on the short term but think long."
"One should not shy away from creating an environment of adaptability."
"You cannot deliver value unless you anchor the company’s values. Values make an unsinkable ship."
"Aristotle once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. I think it's time to examine what we do once more in the spirit of a critical friend. Let's pause for a moment to consider what we need to examine."
"I think there are at least five ways in which job description will change."
"The CEO has to think long-term and needs to understand the way public and private sectors are coming together and work constructively within that framework. CEOs need to make the phrase "think global and act local" more than a cliche?"
"CEOs need keep an open mind so they can adapt to a rapidly changing world and need to bring an abundant dose of emotional intelligence to the job."
"The whole perspectives in which companies are viewed needs to shift from short to the long-term, and as I would say, to a focus on shapes, not just numbers."
"I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. 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 encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president."
"To lead in an ever-changing world, leaders must adapt and stay nimble."
"I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away."
"Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that."
"I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company."
"My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent."
"When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today."
"When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response."
"As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future."
"I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else."
"Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment."
"The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant."
"The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially."
"We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits."
"Our hope is that whosoever is in power, manages this country consistently for all the potential the country has."
"I have no comments on political situations. I speak as the CEO of a large multinational company. Countries like India should be successful for the long term because India needs growth."
"India needs to grow at 7 to 8 per cent to ensure full employment and we all will do our part to invest in India to make sure India achieves its growth potential."
"We are not guided by elections. We are guided by potential of India. We are not waiting for any election results to invest in India. We are investing in India for its economic story."
"Look, when you pull into the garage, leave the crown there. Don't walk in with it, because you are first a wife and a mother. And if the family needs milk, you go get the milk. That is your primary role in life. Everything else is what you acquired or what you got because I pray for four to five hours a day.' That is the only thing she tells me."
"Her mother’s advice quoted in"
"One such way was to do with her lifelong love of cricket. No one in this country (the US) followed the game, but they did follow baseball, another bat-and-ball sport. So she threw herself into baseball and into the local team, the New York Yankees, reading everything she could on the subject until she could comfortably talk about it."
"Nui is a different kind of CEO. He says her approach boils down to balancing the profit motive by making healthier snacks (in speech to the food industry, she pushed the group to tackle obesity), striving for a net zero impact on the environment and taking care of your workforce. She was one of the first executives to realize that the health and green movements were just not fads and she demanded true innovation."
"Indra can drive as deep and hard as anyone I have ever met, but she can do it with a sense of heart and fun."
"As someone who has always aspired to build a company committed to its people and to the world, I admire her determination to achieve sustainability at an established company like Pepsi Co. And I believe that all socially responsible companies could learn from Indra Nooyi’s style of leadership."
"I don’t think women can have it all. I just don’t think so. We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all. My husband and I have been married for 34 years and we have two daughters. Every day you have to make a decision of whether you’re going to be a wife or a mother—in fact many times a day during the day you have to make those decisions. And you have to co-opt a lot of people to help you. We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I’m not sure they will say that I’ve been a good mom"
"When you have to have kids you have to build your career. Just when you’re rising to middle management, your kids need you because they’re teenagers—they need you for the teenage years. And that’s the time your husband becomes a teenager too, so he needs you… Your parents need you because they’re aging. So we’re screwed, we have no hope, we cannot have it all. So you know what? Coping mechanisms. Train people at work. Train your family"
"Have you done your homework"
"It’s seamless parenting"
"But if you don’t do that, if you don’t develop mechanisms with your secretary, with the extended office, with everyone around you, it cannot work"
"There are consequences to the juggling"
"Being a CEO of a company is three full-time jobs rolled into one. How can you do justice to all? You can’t. The person that hurts the most with this whole thing is your spouse"
"cannot have it all, and that the biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with one another. Total and complete conflict"
"The higher you go, it’s either up or out. People are waiting to knock you off the ladder"
"Peak performance requires peak conditioning —we don’t tell professional athletes to work out four hours a week, why in the world would anyone think we could achieve great success in business with a four hour workweek? Be like Lionel Messi, do the work"
"Accept, and seek out, people telling truths to power"
"Being surrounded by people who challenge you isn’t easy, but it forces better decision-making. Being surrounded by yes men and women does not always make progress, if often gets the wrong job done"
"Reaching the top doesn’t mean having unchecked power — it means having full accountability. Leaders need dissenting voices to push them toward better solutions. I ask for feedback so my team feels comfortable telling me no, or an idea I have is bad, and when you open that door they storm right through :) And it’s all good"
"So I go out and get milk. And when I come back, I’m hopping mad. I say, I had great news for you. I’ve just been named President of PepsiCo. And all you want me to do is go out and get milk"
"...tribute to her unflinching zeal towards the betterment of women in society."
"realities of our own countries rather than catching up with the western economic models, [Bhatt urged] the people to follow a principle which ensures six basic necessities- food, shelter, clothing, primary education, primary healthcare and primary banking- are available within a 100 mile distance. If these necessities are locally produced and consumed, we will have the growth of a new holistic economy."
"Teachers do not care…It is not because teachers are badly paid and the teachers are organized but they do not teach. If we don’t respect them it is because we see them doing other business than teaching."
"…Inner peace is important, but I have always felt that living a daily life with peace is the end. So in reality individual peace and global peace are not separate. They are one and the same."
"…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist."
"Through women, what exists and is real, what is traditional, historical, modern and cultural, given the opportunity, is upgraded. That is what the challenge to bring peace is about."
"I grew up in the time around India’s independence, in the aura of a country fighting for its freedom. It was a heady and idealistic time, and we were all infected with a spirit of optimism, and the spirit of Gandhiji."
"We were rebuilding the nation, looking to a more just society. It was a time when many of us were going to the villages to live there. We were a generation that had no confusion in our minds as to how to do things. Gandhiji had shown the way. This atmosphere infused politics and the way we did things."
"...as I worked with the unionized labor, of the much larger labor force that was outside the purview of the protective labor laws, of any form of social security, access to justice, access to financial services, anything. That tugged at my heart. And those people were unorganized and had no strength to act to seek remedies."
"Women predominate in the lower strata of employment."
"[So], in 1972, we started SEWA, the Self Employed Women’s Association. SEWA in many respects is a microcosm of the general picture of the informal sector, in India and worldwide."
"SEWA is now the largest union in India, with a membership of around 1.2 million women."
"[SEWA] have been doing many different things, leading the SEWA movement which is about economic freedom for the poor, women, and self employed."
"I am Hindu, and my activism is very much framed within that context, of karma as meaning action."
"The country is moving in a different direction, times have changed. But for me Gandhiji’s values are still the frame, still alive and valid."
"SEWA is about political action, and that has always been at the heart of what we have done. It is about changing the balance of power in favor of the poor. That has meant constant tension, with big farmers, moneylenders, contractors, big traders, government, local panchayats, and so on."
"Injustice happens at many levels, from the grass roots to the top. And one of the keys of SEWA’s vision and action is linking them."
"Systems are needed, for example for management, accounting, skill development and MIS to serve the needs of the working poor."
"Microfinance is the best example of success in the kinds of systemic institutional areas."
"What we really are looking for is self reliance and that is how we should measure success. I don’t much like the word empowerment, but self-reliance is the foundation of SEWA’s approach,."
"Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher."
"All my life I have worked to change concepts, and that begins with how people see and understand the problems."
"She (Bhatt) has helped not only women in India but women in South Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and inspired so many others to find their own way forward to overcome long legacies of inequality and unfairness. She has helped us imagine and then work toward a fairer world."
"So for her contribution to India and particularly the women of India, and to the global community, it is my honour to present the first Global Fairness Award to my friend, Ela Bhatt""
"The work that she has done through the Self-Employed Women's Association is not only about finding solutions to the problems of poverty. At its most basic level, Ela's work is about fairness, about giving every person the chance to achieve his or her dreams, to make the most of his or her God-given potential'no matter how rich or poor, no matter whether they work in a factory or a home or on the side of a road."
"Even in places where it is most stark, people still should be able to develop their ambitions and direct them toward building better lives. And Ela and SEWA have proven that,"
"Ela Bhatt has upended the old ways of thinking and compelled all of us to raise our collective ambitions about what we can do to."
"Strange. I have never been consciously feminist. I am more a humanist. I like dealing with the situation of the underdog and, somehow, I feel women are such a minority in this country. Also, I feel if my voice can be heard, why shouldn't I highlight their situation and create awareness and hope? I'm not consciously making women-oriented films. Maybe, subconsciously, the feminist inside me veers towards highlighting women's issues. (when asked if it was a conscious decision to concentrate on women-centric films)"
"Situations like the one showed in Ek Pal exist in the lower classes and the upper classes and are more easily acceptable. It is the middle-class who gets horrified. It is the middle class who wants to act out, but can’t. (discussing the themes of adultery in the film and morality of the middle class)"
"Bhupso (Kalpana endearingly addresses Hazarika as Bhupso) did offer to marry me two years ago, but I said no. May be he wanted to give me the status of wife, but I was not interested. For me, the relationship, the trust and the respect that we share with each other are more important than marriage. (discussing her unique relationship with Bhupen Hazarika)"
"Well, my kidneys have failed. I haven't (laughs). (discussing her Kidney Cancer)"
"I am itching to get back to filmmaking. The industry has changed so much since I last directed a movie. Those days when my films like 'Ek Pal' and 'Rudaali' were so appreciated, now seem remote. We've gone from the era from Mahesh Bhatt to the era of Alia Bhatt. And I'm proud I know both of them as wonderful human beings. It's been a wonderful journey. I've enjoyed every minute of it. And I am not done as yet. (hopes of recovering from Kidney Cancer and returning to filmmaking after a long hiatus)"
"Kalpana was an amazing raconteur, who brought any incident or story to life in front of your eyes. It was visual, you could sense it and taste it. A passionate person, who had a great sense of humour and enjoyed laughing at herself and her own foibles. She was a people’s person and loved to make friends. She filled the room with laughter and positivity. (As to how the prolonged illness had not seriously dented Kalpana's vivacity till the end)"
"I set out to assist two amazing filmmakers Sai Paranjpye and Kalpana Lajmi, both torchbearers of qualitative cinema. Through them I had a solid foundation to understand cinema and its intricacies. With Sai Paranjpye I learnt to use everyday humour, and with Kalpana Lajmi I learnt how to envisage a grand mise-en-scène. (After completing a course in film appreciation at FTII Pune)"
"We will tell the people that our aim is to uplift the Tamil community. Leave ... Can the tiger's cave be gifted to the cats ... Is it tolerable?."
"Once they have the information, who knows what they will do with it. While the case is being fought, we need to stop them. We can’t really ask them ‘give our data back’ even if we win the case, right?"
"The first sign is a powerful and continuing nationalism that is being speared into our national fabric. It is superficial, it is xenophobic, it is narrow. It has a lust to divide. It is not a desire to unite."
"The sacred cow that was the judiciary is no longer sacred. It stopped being sacred day a sitting CJI was accused of sexual harassment, presided over own trial, cleared himself & accepted a nomination to Upper House within 3 months of retirement replete with Z+ security cover."
"It is India’s greatest tragedy perhaps that the very party Vajpayeeji led as Prime Minister, today leads a government that has turned this very same Parliament into the Colosseum in Rome in the 1st century where like a gladiator the honourable Prime Minister enters to chants of Modi, Modi."
"I think I acted as a mature politician. For long, we had avoided the issue of BJP imposing its own version of Hinduism, which is based on established norms of North India. The party should desist from imposing it on people of other parts of the country such as West Bengal where Hindus follow their well-established rituals for centuries. Who is the BJP to teach us how to conduct puja of Goddess Kali in a particular way?"
"Kali to me is a meat-eating, alcohol accepting goddess. That is a version of Kali. If you go to Tarapith... that is a version of Kali that people worship. Within Hinduism, being a Kali worshipper, I have the freedom to imagine my Kali in that way. It is my freedom, and I don’t think anyone’s sentiment should be hurt by that. I have the freedom to do it as much as you have the freedom to worship your god as a vegetarian, white-cloth wearing goddess…. I do think religion should remain in the personal ambit, and as long as I am not interfering in your space, I think we should be allowed that."
"You have not achieved the goals of a cashless digital economy. You have not achieved the goals of phasing out fake currency even after six years of your ‘dhamaka’ announcement. Currency in circulation has doubled from ₹18 lakh crore in November 2016 to ₹32 lakh crore in November 2022"
"There really is nothing in the world that can stop you from achieving what you want… nothing but your own self-limiting thoughts"
"To me success is about being able to sleep without a worry. And I say this because peaceful sleep is the hardest to achieve today. Success is also being able to look at myself in the mirror with pride and be happy with what I am doing."
"I always say there is no one who can understand what exactly you are going through. So, one should not look for external gratification, motivation or validation. If there is something you want to do in your life, you have to do it for yourself."
"Fifty years ago, most people could not afford cars. Today a majority of people can. I think the sky is the next big place where there’s going to be a lot of things happening. I want to make air taxis a reality. I want to be able to take people from their homes to their offices in air taxis."
"As for her message for wannabe women entrepreneurs, Kanika says the first step for them is to assume that most things in their lives are negotiable and they must not settle for whatever they are offered. They need not accept the status quo as fixed and rigid."
"” she said. “Just realize that when you come to UTA your education is just starting. The world is changing so quickly. Education is a forever commitment. It never stops.”"
"Whatever we do, we have to make an impact at scale. Otherwise, it's not worth doing," she says."
"She also believes in betting big on innovation. "For example, we have 150 women in our R&D team in Ahmedabad, and they've filed patents that are strong worldwide, and can't be cracked. That's innovation.""
"Never say that again."
"Lift as you climb has become a huge mantra for me."
"How do I ensure I make it easier for those who come after me."
"It’s bigger than that."
"I must say I’m really happy to be here with my family."
"My husband and both my boys are here. *I’m pretty sure they never watched any of the links I sent them."
"I wanna make it count and I’m very happy to have members of team Chanel here with me."
"Great to have the full team Chanel and family support here."
"I can see the number of people who said, no, it can’t be done."
"I remember growing up and I grew up in a small town in India."
"I remember everything was a negotiation."
"I remember my mom saying, “oh my God, you’re so ambitious."
"That was like the number one concern, how is this girl ever gonna find her husband."
"I think it takes a lot of resilience for sure."
"I often joke about it that I have a thick skin."
"How do I make it easier always?*I’m absolute believer in affirmations."
"I’m constantly affirming."
"Finding sponsors, finding mentors, finding people, because I didn’t have role models in my immediate family, but reaching out to people."
"I will educate you, but I can’t promise that you will have a career because I don’t know if attitudes are gonna change."
"I can’t change the world around you, but I’ll educate you."
"I didn’t enjoy it as much."
"I’m not allowed to say I’m a lousy engineer because the founders I met this morning who are in the audience, and thank you, StartX founders told me."
"I truly believe in benevolence, kindness, compassion, and empathy."
"You have to do tough things in business, but doing them compassionately is very important to me."
"It's about doing it properly, keeping the person in mind."
"If I'm in a meeting, I want to listen to every voice because I truly believe in collective intelligence."
"Everyone's voice matters, not just the ones who speak loudly."
"I respect what each person brings-their values, beliefs, and individuality."
"We don't see enough role models like that."
"The one thing they'll tell you about me is that I really care about people it's not lip service."
"When you care for people, they care for the business in return."
"AI is everywhere and it is going to be transformative in our world, so luxury has to engage with it, Chanel has to engage with it as all others."
"I travelled to Seatle in May, and we met a whole lot of people."
"We visited Microsoft, Google, and many of the startups in the area, and spent some time with ChatGPT."
"I do think number one in my mind is to keep a relentless focus on human creation."
"I don't that ever to go."
"AI supports human creators and creations rather than taking away what they bring, so skillfully and masterfully core to who we are at Chanel."
"We are also high on ethics and integrity, so we want to do it in the right way."
"It is a 100 per cent male team, not even in fashionable clothes."
"it's so important that we keep the ethics and integrity of what we are doing with AI."
"I listen to every voice in the room."
"I truly believe in benevolence, in kindness, in compassion, in empathy."
"You’ve got to do tough things in business, but doing it compassionately is very important."
"It really matters that I set a brand of leadership that’s about compassion and empathy."
"Ageing made me stop taking my body for granted"
"Lifting weights reverses sarcopenia (muscle loss with age) and improves bone mass"
"Active women need 2x body weight protein in gms. For 57.5 kg, my number is 115gm & this amount of protein is extremely hard to consume! For me it’s 30g as whey + 6 eggs (3 w/o yellow) + lentils/ yoghurt/ nuts. And please don’t skip the scoop on rest days like I used to"
"I have had various types of sexist encounters starting with the fact that I was told we don’t invest in women founded companies. So only when your husband joins the business, we will give you the cheque"
"Early on in our journey, we were so desperate for capital and it was so hard for Kaushik (husband) and me to raise funding all the way up till 2018-19 when B2C (business to consumer) became cool"
"When I get my chance, I will pay forward and I will ensure that when I have some money I fund a lot of woman-led companies but I will not take panga with them (investors)"
"In 2012-13, when Kaushik was still with Mckinsey and I've had an investor say 'We don't invest in solo women founders so, until Kaushik quits Mckinsey and joins full time, we can't give you a cheque"
"We had this female founder and when she had a family, she decided to not prioritise this and the business sort of drifted away"
"In my head, I was like 'Wow! Sample size n=1 and you've decided to label our entire gender saying that you'll never invest in women founders and you're openly talking about it"
"There are still times that when some venture capitalists would shake my husband's hand, but not mine"
"IIMA taught me the importance of taking risks and showed me how aiming high can significantly impact your entire career path"
"Since my youth, I held the ambition to become an entrepreneur, with the only question being when and how"
"When you are in your 20s, you are so idealistic that you sometimes don't understand that succeeding in business is very different from succeeding in college. And I was also very overconfident, but I'm very glad today that I did take up entrepreneurship. Although the journey was very painful in the beginning, now that I have been an entrepreneur for almost 15 years, I'm glad I have built something that is right"
"As somebody who's not a very ardent makeup user growing up, fashion was never on the mind. However, I always knew that I wanted to create something where women are the consumers because I just felt that the world was changing fast, but for women, it was changing even faster. For instance, women were beginning to work or study and had access to their own income and access to the internet"
"So what I was very clear about is the fact that women were becoming more confident and independent in their decision making was going to change many industries that revolve around them. And I really wanted to be a part of that"
"If you're looking at a young woman as your core customer, how much in the next 10-20 years she will evolve"
"I have always said there are no glass ceilings. I don’t think men are waiting to not allow women to do what they want. I think women have to want it for themselves. And if they want it for themselves, they will have it"
"Today, there is a generational shift happening. When I started, there were only nine women in a class of 150 students in our MBA school. When it came to their life journeys, a lot of women used to give up. But today’s new generation of women are not giving up. It is important to be able to juggle between personal life and work at that point of time (when you are getting married, becoming parents) because I feel you should continue working even if you take a break for some time."
"Let the spotlight of your life be on you. For too long women have been afraid to dream about themselves. We have given them chance to be born, lets give them the chance to dream"
"For women there are no glass ceilings. Women need to dream for themselves. The empowerment and support has to come from home. From family, you need to be empowered to pursue your dreams than what companies do. I am a big believer that women empowerment has to begin at home"
"We are a very open organisation. We listen to our customers and all the ideas come from them. They tell us to bring this particular brand or open a store here. We have been very active on social media"
"I was aware of the e-commerce in US so we thought if we could marry e-commerce with the problems of Indian beauty industry and come up with a multi-brand retailer having a focus to deliver beauty experience to e-commerce will be the right way to go ahead"
"Since then, consumers from the old age group are also buying beauty products, but the initial success was from millennials"
"We've spent the last decade building a truly omnichannel beauty ecosystem, one that spans across all channels to serve the modern Indian consumer. We believe that focus on both online and offline retail — is critical for both beauty brands and beauty consumers. Today, we are proud to announce that we have crossed the 250 stores milestone. This makes us the largest network of beauty specialty stores in India, with a presence in 82 cities. Our physical retail business is not only expanding its footprint, but it is also doing so profitably"
"We launched Nykaa Fashion to meet two key market needs: the vast potential of the fashion industry and a growing consumer desire for a trend-focused, premium shopping experience. We've stayed true to this vision, focusing on curating a high-quality assortment and enabling discovery"
"Nykaa is well positioned for success as we are operating in this high growth environment where BPC and Fashion are the fastest-growing categories in discretionary consumption. The online BPC market alone is projected to grow threefold from FY25 to FY30, reaching $15 billion. Similarly, the online fashion market is projected to more than triple in the same period, reaching $60 billion"
"I wish I had a co-founder from the technology field, that would have given me a great start"
"Keeping the ship at an even keel can help weather the travails of running an enterprise through the highs and lows"
"Age is no bar"
"Sense the opportunity"
"Be intentional and focused"
"Decision-making will not always be easy, and often there will be no straightforward answer. So, trust your gut to an extent, it will guide you well"
"And remember, no matter what anyone says, it is never too late to start all over again"
"Don't be afraid to take risks along the way. You are blessed to be entering a world that is now increasingly risk-friendly. Spend the early years of your career taking the right risks and make some bold bets on yourself. Test what you like and what you don't. Take on roles that put you outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself"
"I think what business you choose to build should be based on conviction; it doesn't have to be your favourite product or anything like that. I saw a business case and a business need for beauty. And that's what I chose"
"I really like the beauty industry. It's a fantastic industry. I know most of the big players in the industry, the CEOs and their senior management teams....And it's a good business. I really love the brand-building aspect of the business. Happy place, I would say, definitely"
"What I really appreciate is people who build brands. And that also is something I am a very keen observer of. What I'm really proud of is the brand Nykaa and how we built that. And it was a very conscious attempt to really build a very consumer-loved brand. And I put in a lot of effort, both organisational and personal effort towards building the brand"
"And today I think Nykaa's 'brand reality' is ahead of its 'commercial reality," she said. "I go to the smallest towns, like two hours away from Manali, and the little girls know Nykaa. So I think the brand is what I really value the most"