black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
SHERYL SANDBERG

Appearance Choice Weird
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Home Success Women
I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Education Girl Myself Serious Young
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
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Avoid Choice Demand Job Necessary Sacrifice
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
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Best Frustration Perfection Worst
Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Determination Easy Hard Life Try Yourself
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Success Yourself
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Difficult Empathy People Suffering Thinking
Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
SHERYL SANDBERG

Issues Life Lose Work
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Advice Boy Commitment Crazy Husband Life Marriage Relationship Woman

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes