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.
SHERYL SANDBERGDon’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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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 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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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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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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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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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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I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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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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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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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