Latest Sheryl Sandberg Quotes from Interviews

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• When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Support, Loyal, Hardship

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Grief, Grieving, Giving

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Grief, Loss, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I was grateful that Facebook already had generous bereavement policies . Now Facebook employees receive 20 days paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and 10 days for an extended family member. I'm proud that we're able to do this and I hope more businesses do the same. Only 60 percent of private sector workers get paid time off after the death of a loved one, and then it's usually just a few days. Workers and families deserve better than that.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Grateful, Loss, Grieving

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned the research about how important journaling can be to recovering from trauma and grief. That was definitely true for me.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Couple, Grief, Writing

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and I asked him what, if anything, I could do to help myself and my kids get through this. We started talking about resilience, then reading about it, then talking to other people who had gotten through grief and other huge challenges. In time, those conversations and that research helped me heal.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Husband, Grief, Reading

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Gratitude, Thinking, Joy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we're shortsighted when we don't invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I had heard that when people lost people, there was anger. But I definitely experienced it a lot more than I was prepared for it. Anger was not something I'd ever really felt in my life and I was not prepared for it.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Grief comes and goes, it ebbs and flows. I think one of the lessons of this for me is that there's no one way to grieve. Everyone does it in their own way, in their own time, and we all process life and its challenges and its ups and downs as they come.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Grief, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• The reason I wrote Lean In is I think people weren't actually noticing that we had stopped making progress. I gave a TED talk and said: "It turns out men still run the world." And the audience gasped as if that was news.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• My goal is very clear, and I wrote about it in Lean In, which is that women run half our companies and countries and men run half our homes. As much as I wish that could happen in four years, I don't think that's a likely time period. But I think it can happen sooner than we think. Part of it is having that aspiration and that goal. I think we too often suffer from the tyranny of low expectations.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Country, Home

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• 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

  Men, Aspiration

  Source: espn.go.com

• We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Achieve, Good Things

  Source: espn.go.com

• A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Intelligent, Thinking, Needs

• As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Powerful, Successful, Men

• All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mean, People, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Writing, Self Confidence, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

• There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of pressure on women to do things they may not want to do. And if you start out unequal, you are not going to end up with equality.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Dating, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Doe, My Family

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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

  Father, Crazy, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Nice, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have to come. But he sent a note saying, "I missed your meeting because I drove my kids to school so my wife could do something else. Thank you for making that possible." I think that employee is a loyal employee for Facebook and I think more companies should want that kind of loyalty.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Loyalty, Morning, School

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

• 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

  People, Population, Use

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com