Top 100 Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
#1. It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.'
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#4. It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
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#5. We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.
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#6. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. Padmasree
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#7. I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.
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#8. I could challenge the notion that I was constantly headed for failure.
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#9. I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives.
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#10. Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
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#11. I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has - and how grateful we are for what we have - no one has it all.
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#12. When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly.
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#13. Men are allowed to be focused on their own achievements, while loyalty is expected from women.
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#14. If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing others, she's acting like a man. And if she acts like a man, people dislike her.
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#15. My hope, of course, is that we won't have to play by these archaic rules forever and that eventually we can all just be ourselves.
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#16. If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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#17. The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth
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#18. Another one of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, "Done is better than perfect." I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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#19. 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)
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#20. It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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#21. Trying to overcorrect is a great way to find middle ground. In order for me to speak the right amount in a meeting, I have to feel as if I am saying very little.
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#22. Okay, so all a woman has to do is ignore society's expectations, be ambitious, sit at the table, work hard, and then it's smooth sailing all the way. What could possibly go wrong?
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#23. Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.
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#24. Given this, I believe we have sent the wrong message to young women. We need to stop telling them, "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor." Clara
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#25. The goal of a successful negotiation is to achieve our objectives and continue to have people like us.
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#26. The path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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#27. Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash.
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#28. The pipeline that supplies the educated workforce is clock-full of women at the entry level, but by the time that same pipeline is filling leadership positions, it is overwhelmingly stocked with men.
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#29. Men and women also differ when it comes to explaining failure. When a man fails, he points to factors like "didn't study enough" or "not interested in the subject matter". When a woman fails, she is more likely to believe it is due to an inherent lack of ability.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.
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#33. If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.
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#34. But instead of blaming women for not negotiating more, we need to recognize that women often have good cause to be reluctant to advocate for their own interests because doing so can easily backfire.
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#35. Colleagues and the media are also quick to credit external factors for a woman's achievements.
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#36. He discovered that his own reaction to his disability influenced how others reacted, which meant he could control how he was perceived.
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#37. One night, encouraged by the male partners, I puffed away on a cigar - just one of the guys. Except that the smoking nauseated me and I reeked of cigar smoke for days. If that was fitting in, I stuck out.
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#39. A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable, predictable, and meaningful.
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#40. I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
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#43. Instead of ignoring our differences, we need to accept and transcend them.
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#44. Some girls like superheroes, some girls like princesses. Some boys like superheroes, some boys like princesses. So why do all the girls have to buy pink stuff and all the boys have to buy different color stuff?
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#45. 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.
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#46. We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't know how to convince anyone to believe deep down that she is the best person for the job, not even myself.
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#47. believing in your own self-worth is essential to achieving your full potential.
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#48. Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.
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#49. 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.
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#50. A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant
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#51. Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
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#52. A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.
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#53. Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid.
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#54. If we can succeed in adding more female voices at the highest levels, we will expand opportunities and extend fairer treatment to all.
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#55. Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,
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#56. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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#57. 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.
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#59. finding God or a higher power reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. There is much we don't understand about human existence, and there is order and purpose to it anyway. It helps us feel that our suffering is not random or meaningless." Yet
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#60. 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.
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#61. We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.
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#62. We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild.
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#63. I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
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#64. Carol Frohlinger and Deborah Kolb, founders of Negotiating Women, Inc., describe this as the "Tiara Syndrome," where women "expect that if they keep doing their job well someone will notice them and place a tiara on their head."9
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Girls are increasingly outperforming boys in the classroom, earning about 57 percent of the undergraduate and 60 percent of the master's degrees in the United States.
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#68. We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership,
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#69. It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.
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#70. We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.
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#71. I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life," she told me. "Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world." Brain
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#72. As we get older, we define happiness less in terms of excitement and more in terms of peacefulness. Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, "Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.
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#73. 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.
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#74. In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.
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#76. Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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#77. I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.
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#78. An internal report at Hewlett-Packard revealed that women only apply for open jobs if they think they meet 100 percent of the criteria listed. Men apply if they think they meet 60 percent of the requirements.
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#79. I am also writing this for any man who wants to understand what a woman - a colleague, wife, mother, or daughter - is up against so that he can do his part to build an equal world. This
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#80. For men, professional success comes with positive reinforcement at every step of the way. For women, even when they're recognized for their achievements, they're often regarded unfavorably.
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#81. Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.
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#82. Are you my mentor? If someone has to ask the question, the answer is probably no. When someone finds the right mentor, it is obvious. The question becomes a statement.
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#83. Anyone who brings up gender in the workplace is wading into deep and muddy waters. The subject itself presents a paradox, forcing us to acknowledge differences while trying to achieve the goal of being treated the same.
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#84. When I left Google to join Facebook, as a percentage of my team, fewer women tried to follow me. As they had been all along, the men were more interested in new and, as we say in tech, higher beta opportunities - where the risks were great but the potential rewards even greater.
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#85. 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.
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#86. women are not thinking about 'having it all,' they're worried about losing it all - their jobs, their children's health, their families' financial stability - because of the regular conflicts that arise between being a good employee and a responsible parent."34
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#87. The researchers speculated that men in traditional marriages are not overtly hostile toward women but instead are "benevolent sexists" - holding positive yet outdated views about women.10 (Another term I have heard is "nice guy misogynists.")
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#88. For many men, the fundamental assumption is that they can have both a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. For many women, the assumption is that trying to do both is difficult at best and impossible at worst.
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#89. in business, being risk averse can result in stagnation.
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#90. Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
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#91. Parental behavioral factors - including fathers who are responsive and positive, mothers who favor "self-directed child behavior," and parents with emotional intimacy in their marriages - influence a child's development two to three times more than any form of child care.
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#92. Women are also more reluctant to apply for promotions even when deserved, often believing that good job performance will naturally lead to rewards.8
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#93. letting the other side make the first offer is often crucial to achieving favorable terms.
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#94. Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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#95. I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.
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#96. HAVING IT ALL." Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase.
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#97. Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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#98. Avoiding feelings isn't the same as protecting feelings.
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#99. Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!
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#100. 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.
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