110+ Sheryl Sandberg Quotes On Equality, Success And Teamwork

Sheryl Sandberg is an American businesswoman, best known for being the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. She is also the founder of Leanin.org, a non-profit organization that promotes gender equality. She is a well-known advocate for women in the workplace and is a best-selling author of the book "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead". Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sheryl Sandberg on leadership, equality, success.

Top 10 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

1. We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
2. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
3. 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.
4. Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
5. Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
6. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
7. 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.
8. Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
9. Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
10. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sheryl Sandberg Short Quotes

• Done is better than perfect.
• The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
• Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
• Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
• The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
• It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
• Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
• Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
• It is the hard days, the times that challenge you to your very core, that determine who you are.
• Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Leadership

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. — Sheryl Sandberg

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership) — Sheryl Sandberg

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. — Sheryl Sandberg

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy. — Sheryl Sandberg

We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back. — Sheryl Sandberg

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don't expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don't. — Sheryl Sandberg

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 — Sheryl Sandberg

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask! — Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Equality

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. — Sheryl Sandberg

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it. — Sheryl Sandberg

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality. — Sheryl Sandberg

I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen. — Sheryl Sandberg

I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives. — Sheryl Sandberg

There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of pressure on women to do things they may not want to do. And if you start out unequal, you are not going to end up with equality. — Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Success

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost. — Sheryl Sandberg

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success. — Sheryl Sandberg

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About People

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

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

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

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

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

When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy. — Sheryl Sandberg

People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits. — Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Work

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier. — Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Helped

The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful. — Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Daughter

Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments. — Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Succeed

Nobody can succeed on their own. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change. — Sheryl Sandberg

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Sheryl Sandberg Famous Quotes And Sayings

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive. — Sheryl Sandberg

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. — Sheryl Sandberg

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few. — Sheryl Sandberg

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. — Sheryl Sandberg

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. — Sheryl Sandberg

Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

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

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken. — Sheryl Sandberg

A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

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

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

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity. — 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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy. — 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

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress. — Sheryl Sandberg

Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

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

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

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone. — Sheryl Sandberg

Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables. — Sheryl Sandberg

We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we're shortsighted when we don't invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Life Lessons by Sheryl Sandberg

1. Sheryl Sandberg's work emphasizes the importance of taking risks and pushing boundaries in order to achieve success.
2. She encourages people to be confident in their abilities and to speak up for themselves in order to be heard.
3. Her work also emphasizes the importance of resilience and perseverance in the face of challenges and setbacks.