Sheryl Sandberg

Done is better than perfect.

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face, and there will be barriers, be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

I must have had a dozen jobs and I got fired from all of them.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard working and pragmatic.

Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.

The other people I don’t take too seriously are the critics-except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they’re just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it’s spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they’ve rediscovered old, and they’re celebrating detail and ornamentation.

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

I have very good executives and great children. They’re very good.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

It’s not just about being better. It’s about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.

I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.