Top 100 Quotes About Sheryl Sandberg
#1. As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Erik Qualman
#2. I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#3. So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there who has ever felt more like a professional juggler than a politician, you are our best hope! Run sister, run.
Nicolle Wallace
#4. Sheryl Sandberg writes in her book Lean In that 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."17
Wendy Sachs
#5. We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
Rachel Bloom
#6. Over the past decade, child care costs have risen twice as fast as the median income of families with children.
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#7. So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
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#8. No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.
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#9. ( ... ) gender bias influences how we view performance and typically raises our assessment of men while lowering our assessment of women.
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#10. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?
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#11. It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled.
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#12. Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.
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#13. I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier.
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#14. 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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#15. At a certain point, it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters.
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#16. A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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#17. Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.
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#18. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to be liked by others.
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#19. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.
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#20. Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.
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#21. Parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.
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#22. When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.
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#23. Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional - or worse, sometimes even a negative - for women. "She is very ambitious" is not a compliment in our culture.
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#24. 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.
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#25. Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself - traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. This may explain why girls' academic gains have not yet translated into significantly higher numbers of women in top jobs.
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#26. It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.
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#27. 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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#30. I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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#31. Women will continue to sacrifice being liked for being successful.
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#33. When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.
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#34. There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of pressure on women to do things they may not want to do. And if you start out unequal, you are not going to end up with equality.
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#35. It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
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#36. 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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#37. Gloria Steinem said it best: "You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement."5
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#38. 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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#40. I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.
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#41. All of us
men and women alike
have to understand and acknowledge how stereotypes and biases cloud our beliefs and perpetuate the status quo.
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#42. These aren't personal questions. They are human questions,
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#43. When I was on the other side, my reply became, "I can't imagine either, but I have no choice." I
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#44. Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.
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#45. The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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#46. As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school's computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.
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#47. Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.
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#48. I could challenge the notion that I was constantly headed for failure.
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#49. 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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#50. Social scientists have observed that when members of a group are made aware of a negative stereotype, they are more likely to perform according to that stereotype.
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#51. I thought ( ... ) the proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked ( ... ) and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles.
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#52. Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
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#53. 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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#54. 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.
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#55. 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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#56. Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Men are allowed to be focused on their own achievements, while loyalty is expected from women.
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#59. 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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#60. Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.
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#61. 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.
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#62. [T]he real issue was not that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.
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#63. (...) in order to fix the problems we needed to be able to talk about gender without people thinking we were crying for help.
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#64. Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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#65. I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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#66. We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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#67. I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. The costs of placing a four-year-old and an infant in child care exceed annual median rent payments in every state. Despite
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#71. Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment - and freely choose one, or the other, or both.
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#72. Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
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#73. Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.
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#74. Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table
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#75. Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.
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#76. You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process you will figure out who you really are - and you just might become the very best version of yourself.
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#77. When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population, I think about her and wonder how different her life might have been if she had been born half a century later.
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#78. By focusing on her career and taking a calculated approach to amassing power, Heidi violated our stereotypical expectations of women. Yet by behaving in the same manner, Howard lived up to our stereotypical expectations of men. The end result? Liked him, disliked her.
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#79. Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely. Long
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#80. People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.
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#81. The laws of economics and many studies of diversity tell us that if we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our collective performance would improve.
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#82. Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
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#83. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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#84. post-traumatic growth could take five different forms: finding personal strength, gaining appreciation, forming deeper relationships, discovering more meaning in life, and seeing new possibilities.
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#85. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less. This truth is both shocking and unsurprising: shocking because no one would ever admit to stereotyping on the basis of gender and unsurprising because clearly we do.
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#86. As the graduates were called to the stage to collect their diplomas, I shook every hand. Many stopped to give me a hug. One young woman even told me I was "the baddest bitch" (which, having checked with someone later, actually did turn out to be a compliment).
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#87. At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.
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#88. That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.
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#89. I'm a feminist because I believe in women ... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.
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#90. The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.
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#91. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
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#92. The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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.
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#96. When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. To this day, I'm embarrassed that I didn't realize that pregnant women needed reserved parking until I experienced my own aching feet. As one of Google's most senior women, didn't I have a special responsibility to think of this?
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#100. 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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