Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.
We should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticized evokes for us. And then we should quickly move on.
[T]he real issue was not that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.
It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
My hope, of course, is that we won't have to play by these archaic rules forever and that eventually we can all just be ourselves.
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.
As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school's computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.
When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.
It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. Padmasree
Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.
It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
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.
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.
( ... ) once a woman achieves success, particularly in a gender-biased context, her capacity to see gender discrimination is reduced.
We find our humanity - our will to live and our ability to love - in our connections to one another.
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.
I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.
As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.
Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.
The goal of a successful negotiation is to achieve our objectives and continue to have people like us.
A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant
As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.
I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely. Long
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid.
Being forthright led to opportunity. Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid sacrifice.
If we can succeed in adding more female voices at the highest levels, we will expand opportunities and extend fairer treatment to all.
No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,
The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.
I'm a feminist because I believe in women ... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.
Option A is not available. so let's just kick the shit out of Option B."
Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.
Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.
I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.