Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
SHERYL SANDBERGEveryone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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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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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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Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Done is better than perfect.
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
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But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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