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.
SHERYL SANDBERGMost people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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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.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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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.
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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.’
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I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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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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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.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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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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The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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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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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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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.
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You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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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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