Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
SHERYL SANDBERGEvery job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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.
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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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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 most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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 tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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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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