Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.
Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!
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 probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.
And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.
I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.
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.
We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.
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
Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
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.
Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.
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.
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.
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.
Facebook is great for women and men. We are enormously flexible. We care a lot about great opportunities for women, we push ourselves to make things as flexible as possible.
When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.
It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.
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.
There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.
Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.
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.
Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?
If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders
Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.
I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.
It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.
But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace.
Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.
You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.
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,
