Top 268 Quotes & Sayings by Sheryl Sandberg - Page 2

We leave people alone when they need us most.

I think the U.S. needs a better safety net... If you're a single mum or even a dual-parent working family, what do you do if you've got a sick child?

Big businesses have always had a lot more voice. They can afford advertising; they can afford marketing. But for small businesses, being able to quickly and cheaply connect to customers is a big deal.

We have to work on treating ourselves like we would treat our friends.

We need to build resilience together, rooted in religion, rooted in schools, rooted in our health care institutions.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

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.

I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.

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

Everyone needs more support than they are getting.

Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity.

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.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

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.'

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.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

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.

I've definitely learned how hard it can be to lean in when you're struggling at home.

I really don't have any plan to leave Facebook. I put it so many times on the record, and I just don't get what to do to say it as clear as possible: I'm staying in Facebook; I really love my job.

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

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.

There's no one way to grieve, and there's no one path.

At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.

I try to appreciate every day.

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.

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.

Judaism is my home. Judaism is super important to me, in death and in life.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.

I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.

There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all of them.

Kids are resilient. My kids are resilient.

I want people to help take care of each other at work. That's what I want. Do you know how many hours we spend at work? We spend more time at work than we spend at home. When people are suffering, we don't help enough.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

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

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

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

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.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

Build your skills, not your resume.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

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

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)

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

Done is better than perfect.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.