If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask…

“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

“Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, “Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“[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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

“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

“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