Sheryl Sandberg

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”

“Done is better than perfect.”

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.”

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”

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

“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...”

“For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so...”

“If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we en...”

“Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.”

“What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a...”

“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.”

“Big businesses have always had a lot more voice. They can afford advertising; they can afford marketing. But for small businesses, being able to quickly and cheaply connect to customers is a...”

“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.”

“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...”

“I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't h...”