black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

Sheryl Sandberg

Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
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

Need Ourselves Phone Success White Woman
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Home Success Women
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Best Frustration Perfection Worst
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Success Yourself
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Care Children Couple Fundamental People Responsibility Women
We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Company Different Focus Growth Oneself
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Confident Necessary Potential Worth
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Care Motivation People Work
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Dream Encouragement Possible Woman
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Achievement Childhood Expectation Leadership Live Men Ourselves Reason Women
You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Easy Myself Social Media Women Work Yourself
Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
SHERYL SANDBERG

Breathe Leadership Perspective Skill Time Yourself
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Country Opportunity Potential Science Talent Technology True Women
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Help Inspirational Philosophy Positive Wisdom

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes