I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
SHERYL SANDBERGIf you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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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.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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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. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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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.
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What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
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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.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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