Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

Learn, Earn, Serve

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

I can't point to anything that has been more responsible for my career than my training.

Do internships and work your butt off to learn as much as you can and prove yourself.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.

A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace herself. A new hire should know from the outset that she will ultimately have to bring in new talent to replace herself so that she can personally better herself and achieve loftier goals.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

As a working woman, thinking back to someone I'd want to see on TV growing up are women who can make something of themselves and their future.

I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!

Most of my mentors in my early career were men; I'm happy to see today the partnership between the newer generation coming through and more senior women leaders helping others advance their careers.

I learned more on 'Spirit Warriors' than I think I have on any other job.

If you apprentice yourself to the smartest people who will take you seriously, you will learn at every step. You'll learn their special language. You'll see what real people do. Your interests might surprise you. They will evolve. And you'll be well-positioned to take advantage of whatever opportunity life throws your way.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.