Lean In Quotes

Done is better than perfect.

~ 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

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

[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

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