Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
SHERYL SANDBERGEvery job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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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.
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Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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