Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

Hundreds of studies have shown that children and adults recover more quickly when they realize that hardships aren’t entirely their fault, don’t affect every aspect of their lives, and won’t follow them everywhere forever.

Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve.

Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don’t, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

One of the things he told me was that my desire to be liked by everyone would hold me back. He said that when you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.

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 who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.17

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.

almost three million Americans are caring for an adult with cancer, which takes an average of thirty-three hours a week.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.

But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in the streets, they envisioned a century later, men and women would be truly equal. A century later, we are still squinting, trying to bring that vision into focus.

Asking for input is not a sign of weakness but often the first step to finding a path forward.

When we are no longer able to change a situation,” psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, “we are challenged to change ourselves.” After

Wer sich heute einen Plan für morgen macht, ist morgen vielleicht auf die Möglichkeiten von heute beschränkt.

"When a man helps a colleague, the recipient feels indebted to him and is highly likely to return the favor. But when a woman helps out, the feeling of indebtedness is weaker. (...) Professor Flynn calls this the "gender discount" problem, and it means that women are paying a professional penalty for their pressumed desire to be communal."