Sheryl Sandberg quotes - page 4

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:

I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

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Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

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The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Success for me is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported.

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Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

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I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

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

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

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The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

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I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

Sheryl Sandberg

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

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