black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.

Sheryl Sandberg

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

Believe Confident Necessary Potential Worth
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
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Empathy Reality Wisdom
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
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Leadership Presence Result Success
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
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
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
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
Done is better than perfect.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Complete Improvement Perfection
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom
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
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
Nobody can succeed on their own.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Alone Company Success Team
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
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Decision Important Life Relationship
But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Authentic Believe Change Connection Myself People
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Ability Women Worth
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Difference Life Perspective Work
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Work
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Connection Family Loyalty Organization Support
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 know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Experience Path Togetherness Travel
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
SHERYL SANDBERG

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

Appearance Choice Weird
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
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Ability Important Leadership Learning Opportunity Perfect Quality Yourself

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes