Sheryl Sandberg famous quotes

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 #Promise #Desire

Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Men #Dating #Bars

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Positive #Leadership #Women

When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Opportunity #Men #Sake

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Talking #Four #Want

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Ambition #Passion #Goal

Facebook is great for women and men. We are enormously flexible. We care a lot about great opportunities for women, we push ourselves to make things as flexible as possible.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Opportunity #Men #Care

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Badass #Leader #Female

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Men #Succeed #Needs

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

#Believe #Self Worth #Be Confident

We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Children #Talking #Needs

I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Running #Ambition #Eye

In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you meet some of the criteria like men, or are you waiting to meet all the criteria like women do?" There's so much we can do to encourage women to take on more and believe in themselves.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Jobs #Believe #Men

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Dream #Long #Overdue

Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Jobs #Opportunity #Men

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Perfection #Leader #Individuality

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Issues #Important #Honest

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Roles #Assuming

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Pregnancy #Gender #Illegal

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

#Baby #Phones #White

We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#People #Use #Population

The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Careers #Decision #Balance

At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Jobs #Mean #Organization

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Men #Ambitious #Achieve

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Please

The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Important #Gender

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Thinking #Want #Needs

When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Real #Thinking #Play

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 #Views

We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Running #Boards #Answers

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

#Girl #School #Work Out

People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Jobs #Wall #Thinking

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Mother #Daughter #Believe

At Facebook we feel a lot of affinity not just for this community but for any community that is trying to do what Davos is trying to do, which is to share information. And Davos is doing it in a particular way - I think the Facebook approach is obviously more broad-based, we're trying to include everyone in the world. But the goal is the same: bring people together, to share information and make the world more connected, and have people have a deeper understanding of themselves, others, the communities of which they want to be a part and can be a part.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Thinking #Goal #People

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Grateful #People #Succeed

The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Real #Self #Evolution

Done is better than perfect.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Perfect #Perfection #Self Improvement

A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Thinking #People #Littles

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Women #Work #Careers

We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Believe #Self #People

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

#Running #Home #Men

Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Believe #Trying #Important

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

#Senior #Powerful #Real

It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Real #Thinking #People

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Ignorance #Painful

I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have to come. But he sent a note saying, "I missed your meeting because I drove my kids to school so my wife could do something else. Thank you for making that possible." I think that employee is a loyal employee for Facebook and I think more companies should want that kind of loyalty.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Loyalty #Morning #School

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Inspirational #Graduation #Bravery

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

#Opportunity #Perfect #Leader

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Motivation #People #Care

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

#Inspiring #Sexy #Husband

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Success #Passion #Luxury

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Believe #Self Confidence #Hands

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

#Thinking #Careers #Needs

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Success #Want #Please

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Thinking #People #Rooms

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

#Bullying #Voice #Expectations

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

#Opportunity #Careers #Feelings

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

#Real #Believe #Self

Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Daughter #Mother #Roots

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.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Work #Women #Years

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Motivational #Women #Voice

Build your skills not your resume.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Skills #Resumes

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

#Jobs #Men #Asking

I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Daughter #Mother #Home

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Daughter #Skills #Next

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Gains #Social

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 #Technology #Opportunity

It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Leader #Waiting

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Inspirational #Graduation #Country

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

#Careers #Choices #Way

The path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Together #Path

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

#Trying #Determined #Easy

The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Decision #Dave #Made

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Opportunity #Growth #Cost

Excel and you will get a mentor.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Mentor

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Years #Lasts

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Girl #Encouragement #Boys

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Jobs #Work #Women