20 Sheryl Sandberg Quotable Quotes

As the COO at the helm of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg juggles the tasks of monetizing the world’s largest social networking site while keeping its users happy and engaged.

Today she manages Facebook’s sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and communications.

Here are 20 quotes drawn from her TEDxWomen 2010 talk on why we have too few women in leadership:

"Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"How are we going to fix this?” ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"How do we change those numbers at the top?” ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

 

"How do we change those numbers at the top?” ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"What messages do we tell ourselves?" ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj 

"What messages do we tell the women we work for and with?" ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"What messages do we tell our daughters?" ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"Women systematically underestimate their own abilities." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"Men attribute their success to themselves. Women attribute their success to other external factors." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"If you ask a men why they did a good job, they will say ‘I'm awesome, why do you even ask?’" ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

Women say they did a good job because “someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked real hard." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"We've got to get women to sit at the table." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj #quote  #SQN #TEDxWomen

"I believe a world in which half the countries &half the companies were run by women would be a better world." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"We have to make it as an important a job to work inside the home for people of both genders." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

“Households with equal earning and equal responsibility have half the divorce rate." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"Your job needs to be challenging, and rewarding.” ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

"You need to feel that you're making a difference." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj

“Households w equal earning & equal responsibility…know each more in the 'Biblical sense." ~ @sherylsandberg https://bit.ly/xCTKhj