Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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.
Women need to shift from thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
I thought resilience was the capacity to endure pain, so I asked Adam how I could figure out how much I had. He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone. Since
I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we’ll face. And we all face some adversity – we’re all living some form of Option B.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
grounded hope”—the understanding that if you take action you can make things better.
I’d worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they’re faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.
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.
…parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child’s development, particularly for girls.
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Sheryl Sandberg Quotes on Children
we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet
We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.
There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women – and men – to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because… they don’t get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.
Sheryl Sandberg Quotes on Ambition
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.
Women don’t take enough risks. Men are just ‘foot on the gas pedal.’ We’re not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
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 Quotes on Talent
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.
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.
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 Quotes on Decisions
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
And what I saw happening is that women don’t make one decision to leave the workforce. They make lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.
Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
Sheryl Sandberg Quotes on Resilience
There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges… We need resilience for all of them.
not everything that happens to us happens because of us.
These aren’t personal questions. They are human questions.
I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other.
Sheryl Sandberg Inspiring Quotes
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
For any of us in this room today, let’s start out by admitting we’re lucky. We don’t live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don’t try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you’ll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don’t just move up and down, don’t just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don’t stress out about the white space-the path you can’t draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.
Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
Sheryl Sandberg Quotes Lean In
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
Fortune does favour the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
Sheryl Sandberg Quotes on Leadership
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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 Quotes on Gym
There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don’t try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you’ll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don’t just move up and down, don’t just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don’t stress out about the white space-the path you can’t draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
Sheryl Sandberg Quotes on Writing
I’m not writing about things other women do. I’m writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.
I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every ‘Harry Potter’ book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.
