Top 250 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “It’s pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

102. “I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

103. “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

104. “Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck. It comes from analyzing how we process grief and from simply accepting that grief. Sometimes we have less control than we think. Other times we have more. I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

105. “We know when we use the full talents of our population we’re more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they’re better employees.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

106. “When the man is traveling with a man, he says, “Let’s stay up late and work on this and get this to be better.” When the man’s traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn’t do the work with her. That’s a lost opportunity for her to be a success.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

107. “We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

108. “I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’”

— Sheryl Sandberg

109. “Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

110. “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

111. “Coming from Google, you don’t exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

112. “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

113. “Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

115. “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

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

117. “The most important thing we’re doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

118. “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

119. “Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top – C-level jobs, board seats – tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

121. “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

122. “The social web can’t exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

123. “One thing that helps is to remember that feedback, like truth, is not absolute. Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others. The information is revealing and potentially uncomfortable, which is why all of us would rather offer feedback to those who welcome it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

124. “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

125. “Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

126. “We find our humanity – our will to live and our ability to love – in our connections to one another.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

127. “What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

128. “Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

129. “Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

130. “I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

131. “As Allen Rucker wrote about his paralysis, “I won’t make your skin crawl by saying it’s a ‘blessing in disguise.’ It’s not a blessing and there is no disguise. But there are things to be gained and things to be lost, and on certain days, I’m not sure that the gains are not as great as, or even greater than, the inevitable losses.” Tragedy.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

132. “It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society’s expectations.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

133. “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.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

134. “Even when we’re in great distress, joy can still be found in moments we seize and moments we create. Cooking. Dancing. Hiking. Praying. Driving. Singing Billy Joel songs off-key. All of these can provide relief from pain. And when these moments add up, we find that they give us more than happiness; they also give us strength.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

135. “Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

136. “When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy. Boys are seldom called bossy because a boy taking the role of a boss does not surprise or offend.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

137. “As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

138. “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

139. “I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

140. “Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

141. “Wanting to improve is not a sign of weakness.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

142. “Reflecting someone’s viewpoint clarifies the disagreement and becomes a starting point for resolution. We all want to be heard, and when we focus on showing others that we are listening, we actually become better listeners.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

143. “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

144. “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

145. “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

146. “One of the most important things I’ve learned is how deeply you can keep loving someone after they die. You may not be able to hold them or talk to them, and you may even date or love someone else, but you can still love them every bit as much. Playwright Robert Woodruff Anderson captured it perfectly: “Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship.” Last.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

147. “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

148. “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.’”

— Sheryl Sandberg

149. “Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

150. “Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’”

— Sheryl Sandberg