Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Done is better than perfect.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Women need to shift from thinking I'm not ready to do that to thinking I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?

~ Sheryl Sandberg

If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

~ Sheryl Sandberg

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

[F]eminism wasn't supposed to make us feel guilty, or prod us into constant competition over who is raising children better, organizing more cooperative marriages, or getting less sleep. It was supposed to make us free -to give us not only choices but the ability to make these choices without constantly feeling that we'd somehow gotten it wrong.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

We need to stop telling [women], Get a mentor and you will excel. Instead, we need to tell them, Excel and you will get a mentor.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. I have seen so many women inadvertently discourage their husbands from doing their share by being too controlling or critical. Social scientists call this maternal gatekeeping which is a fancy term for Ohmigod, that's not the way you do it! Just move aside and let me!...Anyone who wants her mate to be a true partner must treat him as an equal--and equally capable partner. And if that's note reason enough, bear in mind that a study found that wives who engage in gatekeeping behaviors do five more hours of family work per week than wives who take a more collaborative approach.Another common and counterproductive dynamic occurs when women assign or suggest taks to their partners. She is delegating, and that's a step in the right direction. But sharing responsibility should mean sharing responsibility. Each partner needs to be in charge of specific activities or it becomes too easy for one to feel like he's doing a favor instead of doing his part.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

We need more men to sit at the table... at the kitchen table.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

By focusing on her career and taking a calculated approach to amassing power, Heidi violated our stereotypical expectations of women. Yet by behaving in the same manner, Howard lived up to our stereotypical expectations of men. The end result? Liked him, disliked her.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

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 Sandberg

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Think personally, act communally.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right.

~ Sheryl Sandberg