Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

1. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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2. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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3. “Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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4. “Build your skills not your resume.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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5. “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

6. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

7. “You need to feel that you’re making a difference.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

8. “Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

10. “Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

11. “Don’t be afraid to ask the ‘dumb’ question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!”

— Sheryl Sandberg

12. “Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

13. “If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

14. “Bring your whole self to work. 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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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15. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

16. “Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

17. “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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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18. “The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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19. “I’ve seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that’s why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there – and yes, this still happens to me. And when I’m not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

20. “It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

21. “If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

24. “Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

25. “Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

26. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

27. “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

28. “The reason I don’t have a plan is because if I have a plan I’m limited to today’s options.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

29. “The path to change is best traveled when we travel together.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

30. “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

31. “Excel and you will get a mentor.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

32. “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

33. “The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

35. “Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

37. “The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

38. “I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

39. “Nobody can succeed on their own.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

40. “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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

41. “When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

42. “The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

43. “Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

44. “The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

45. “As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

46. “Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

47. “No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

48. “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

49. “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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

50. “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.”

— Sheryl Sandberg