black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.

Sheryl Sandberg

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Better Change Home Men Ourselves Run Transformation World
Done is better than perfect.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Complete Improvement Perfection
It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Children Life Marriage Partner Person Right Woman
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
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
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
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
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Leadership Role Woman
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Enough Inspirational Progress
Build your skills, not your resume.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Choice Skill Yourself
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom
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 SANDBERG

Career Company Feeling Growth Myself Place Quick Team
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
SHERYL SANDBERG

Opinion People Thinking Yourself
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Decision Important Life Relationship

It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes