Success Quote by Barbara Sher

“Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable” works because it refuses to flatter you with choice. Barbara Sher’s line has the crisp logic of a weather report: you can argue about whether it’ll rain, but you can’t negotiate with the sky. As a piece of business-adjacent advice, it’s less motivational poster than pressure valve. By moving from “likely” to “inevitable,” she turns uncertainty into certainty and, in doing so, converts anxiety into a kind of grim relief. If change is guaranteed, then the real question stops being “How do I keep everything stable?” and becomes “What do I do with my attention and energy now?”

The subtext is a quiet indictment of the fantasy of control that modern work culture sells. In corporate life, “managing change” is treated like a skill and a badge, as if you can master volatility through the right framework, slide deck, or morning routine. Sher’s phrasing punctures that pretense: the world will move with or without your permission. That’s not nihilism; it’s strategy. Accepting inevitability creates a deadline for adaptation, and deadlines are how people actually act.

Context matters: Sher built a career helping people navigate careers, ambition, and self-sabotage. This line functions like a cognitive reset button for anyone stuck in perfectionism or paralysis. It’s also a subtle reframe of risk. If stasis is the real illusion, then refusing to change becomes the biggest gamble of all.