503 Quotes by Sheryl Sandberg

I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’

Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took.

It’s a jungle gym, not a ladder.

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

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don’t veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.

It’s pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.

We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap – this problem of not enough women in leadership – is running really deep and it’s in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.