Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
SHERYL SANDBERGDon’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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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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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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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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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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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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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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Done is better than perfect.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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