Sheryl Sandberg quotes

Sheryl Sandberg is an American businesswoman and technology executive best known for her work as the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook (now Meta). Her leadership has had a major impact on the growth and development of the company. She is also recognized for advocating for women’s empowerment through her bestselling book "Lean In." Here are 92 of her quotes:

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.

Sheryl Sandberg

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

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

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

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

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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.

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And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.'

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

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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.

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When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

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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.

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What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

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

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Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

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

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