Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

I like to create openings.

The most important skill of the future will be the ability to learn and adapt. You need to be resourceful, keep your eyes open for advances coming out of nowhere, and embrace the new opportunities as they emerge. You need to be able to collaborate with others and build relationships. You need to be able to share ideas, inspire, and motivate.

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

I think one of the reasons why our brand has grown is because we never close any opportunity. We are open to anything and then we sort of move forward from there.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that's why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That's why I do so many random comedy shows.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.