Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
SHERYL SANDBERGEveryone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
SHERYL SANDBERGCommunication 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.
SHERYL SANDBERGWomen 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.
SHERYL SANDBERGWe need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
SHERYL SANDBERGThe No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
SHERYL SANDBERGI feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
SHERYL SANDBERGAnd anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
SHERYL SANDBERGIf 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.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERGOur 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.
SHERYL SANDBERGWomen need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
SHERYL SANDBERGThere is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
SHERYL SANDBERGSo please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
SHERYL SANDBERGSpeak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
SHERYL SANDBERG