Ruchi Sanghvi Quotes

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The most you get is what you ask for.

I sometimes tell a director that I want to work with him. I tell him twice. After that if he still doesn't give me a call, I move on.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I feel like we do that. I just see so many women take the back seat and wait until the right opportunity, and when you do that, you miss out on the best things.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.

You don't get what you don't ask for

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

I am no advocate of passivity.