Sheryl Sandberg Quotes - Page 2

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

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.

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.

If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try.

I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized.

What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

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 that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.