When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
Sheryl SandbergRead
It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
Interpretation
What this quote means
A true leader takes initiative and does not wait for instructions.
This quote by Sheryl Sandberg emphasizes that effective leadership requires proactivity and decisiveness. Leaders should embody qualities that inspire others and take charge rather than passively awaiting direction, which can undermine their ability to guide and influence their team effectively.
Themes
LeadershipInitiativeProactivityInfluenceGuidance
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about effective business practices, one might quote Sandberg to stress the importance of initiative in leadership roles.
More from Sheryl Sandberg
All quotes βWe can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
Sheryl SandbergRead
Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!
Sheryl SandbergRead
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
Sheryl SandbergRead
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
Sheryl SandbergRead
I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.
Sheryl SandbergRead
Similar quotes
For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.
Robert MuellerRead
Future generations will judge us _x000D_ not by what we say, but what we do.
Ellen Johnson SirleafRead
You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.
Lee Hsien LoongRead
There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
Sam AltmanRead
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
John F. KennedyRead
Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich FrommRead