Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

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.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Today, Live

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

School, Girl, Young

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Decision, Decisions

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

Life, Work, Balance

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

Good, Women, Men

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.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Power, Easy

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

Success, Work, Women

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

Grateful, Succeed, Nobody

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.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Making, State

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

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.
Sheryl Sandberg

Important, Said, Times

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

Around, Ask, Room

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

Women, Woman, Worked

I would be better at my job if I were technical.
Sheryl Sandberg

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

Work, Around, Valuable

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

Change, Real, Self

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

Work, Women, Force

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.
Sheryl Sandberg

Time, Two, Fact

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.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Care, Child

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

Women, Last, Top

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

Women, Home, Succeeding

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

Women, Men, Until

We've got to get women to sit at the table.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Sit, Table

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 Sandberg

Work, Dream, Tell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: August 28, 1969

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