When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work. — Sheryl Sandberg

So there’s no such thing as work–life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance. — Sheryl Sandberg

You know, there has never been a 24–hour period in five years when I have not responded to e–mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

Framing the issue of work–life balance–as if the two were dramatically opposed–practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life? — Sheryl Sandberg

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting. — Sheryl Sandberg

I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder. — Sheryl Sandberg

I probably shouldn’t admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. — Sheryl Sandberg

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work. — Sheryl Sandberg

Nobody can succeed on their own. — Sheryl Sandberg

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed. — Sheryl Sandberg

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities. — Sheryl Sandberg

If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be. — Sheryl Sandberg

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment–and freely choose one, or the other, or both. — Sheryl Sandberg

We’ve got to get women to sit at the table. — Sheryl Sandberg

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream. — Sheryl Sandberg

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more. — Sheryl Sandberg

There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. — Sheryl Sandberg

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home. — Sheryl Sandberg

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top. — Sheryl Sandberg

We need to stop telling [women], ‘Get a mentor and you will excel.’ Instead, we need to tell them, ‘Excel and you will get a mentor. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men. — Sheryl Sandberg

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women. — Sheryl Sandberg

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. — Sheryl Sandberg

Women need to shift form thinking ‘I’m not ready to do that’ to thinking ‘I want to do that–and I’ll learn by doing it. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy. — Sheryl Sandberg

A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

It’s easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. — Sheryl Sandberg

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting. — Sheryl Sandberg

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

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. — Sheryl Sandberg

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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’. — Sheryl Sandberg

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.’ — Sheryl Sandberg

You need to feel that you’re making a difference. — Sheryl Sandberg

I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can’t. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on–that’s something I can do. — Sheryl Sandberg

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy. — Sheryl Sandberg

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success. — Sheryl Sandberg

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform. — Sheryl Sandberg

We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way. — Sheryl Sandberg

No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don’t believe in themselves. — Sheryl Sandberg

Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters. — Sheryl Sandberg

It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it’s very romantic when you’re older. And it’s hard to believe when you’re younger. But it’s absolutely true. — Sheryl Sandberg

Being confident and believing in your own self–worth is necessary to achieving your potential. — Sheryl Sandberg

Coming from Google, you don’t exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft. — Sheryl Sandberg

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

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. — Sheryl Sandberg

More than 75 percent of global video views on facebook inc occur on mobile, and we believe mobile video will become More important to marketers over time. — Sheryl Sandberg

Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’ — Sheryl Sandberg

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier. — Sheryl Sandberg

Boys are taking out the trash, it takes less time than cleaning the dishes, and they’re getting higher allowances. — Sheryl Sandberg

The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is. — Sheryl Sandberg

We’re like so many other families where We’re mourning the loss of someone who was so important in his whole life, so important to the whole family, and not able to come together and have a funeral. — Sheryl Sandberg

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately–to set limits and stick to them. — Sheryl Sandberg

I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is. — Sheryl Sandberg

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again. — Sheryl Sandberg