Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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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 know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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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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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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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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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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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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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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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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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Women 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.
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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.
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