“Men are allowed to be focused on their own achievements, while loyalty is expected from women.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ...… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Counterintuitively, long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. (p.127)” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely.… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Within traditional institutions, success has often been contingent upon a woman not speaking out but fitting in, or more colloquially, being "one… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. The best way to make room… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“(...) just being nice is not a winning strategy. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“This experiment supports what research has already clearly shown: success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.3… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists.… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“In China, women who are single past the age of twenty-seven are stigmatized as sheng nu, or “leftover women.” They face severe… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The success and likability penalty is imposed by both men and women. Women perpetuate this bias as well. (...) Calling attention to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Success for me is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“In order to protect ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others.… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“...intelligence and success are not clear paths to popularity at any age. This complicates everything, because at the same time women need… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“(...) at the same time that women need to sit at the table and own their success, doing so causes them to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Professor Gruenfeld was able to explain the price women pay for success. “Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next 30 years, what difference does "going back" 4 years really… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, “Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
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… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
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… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
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… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“As Helen Keller put it, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
