Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

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.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

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

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

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

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.

No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.

I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

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

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.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nobody can succeed on their own.

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.

We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.

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

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.

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

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

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.

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

It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

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.

You need to feel that you're making a difference.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

Bring your whole self to work. 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.

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

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.

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.

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.