Top 50 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

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

Self-compassion is how we recover.

I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.

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.

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.

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won’t just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

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.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges… We need resilience for all of them.

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.

My grandfather had a paint store. It’s what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

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.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

We tap into something when we’re honest about what’s going on in our lives.

Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.

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.’

Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

Big businesses have always had a lot more voice. They can afford advertising; they can afford marketing. But for small businesses, being able to quickly and cheaply connect to customers is a big deal.

I’m a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don’t have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn’t surprise or offend.

I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

We’ve got to get women to sit at the table.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That’s what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top – C-level jobs, board seats – tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

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.

If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.

Judaism is my home. Judaism is super important to me, in death and in life.

It’s easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

I absolutely loved Tina Fey’s ‘Bossypants’ and didn’t want it to end. It’s hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.

When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.

Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity.

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.

‘Option B’ draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that’s news. That’s not news. That’s obvious.

I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’

So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.

When I wrote ‘Lean In,’ some people argue that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t have a partner. They were right.

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.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word ‘woman.’ Because if you say the word ‘woman’ in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you’re about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this… because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to 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.

I wrote ‘Option B’ because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

I lost my husband, and it’s a horrific thing to live through.

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.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people’s moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.