black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

Sheryl Sandberg

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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Goodness Help Job Men 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
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Empowerment Future Leadership Transformation
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Space Time Women
I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Desire Difference Excellence Leadership Man Myself Win
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 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
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Success Yourself
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Empathy Reality Wisdom
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Powerful Reality Women
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
SHERYL SANDBERG

Opinion People Thinking Yourself
Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Force Myself Need Stay Thinking Woman Work
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Achievement Ambition Men Success
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Work
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Enough Inspirational Progress
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Achievement Goodness Man Marriage Myself Parents Woman Young
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
Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Communication Silence Start Truth Understand View
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Decision Important Life Relationship
Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Advice Control Decision Oneself
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Confident Necessary Potential Worth
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
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

Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Equality Home Men Woman
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Desire Fears Fortune Promise Try Yourself
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Choice Life Limitation Way

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes