503 Quotes by Sheryl Sandberg

There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Don’t be afraid to ask the ‘dumb’ question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

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.

And women have to learn to keep their hands up, because when they lower them, even managers with the best intentions might not notice.

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.

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

Second, I try to set more personal goals for learning new skills in the next eighteen months.

In China, women who are single past the age of twenty-seven are stigmatized as sheng nu, or “leftover women.” They face severe pressure from their families to marry, stemming from the widespread belief that regardless of education and professional achievement, a woman is “absolutely nothing until she is married.” One thirty-six-year-old economics professor was rejected by fifteen men because she had an advanced degree; her father then forbade her younger sister from going to graduate school.

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.