The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it. Women all… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options:… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. The best way to make room… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“You then will lean way in to your career. You will find something you love doing and you will do it with… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next 30 years, what difference does "going back" 4 years really… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, “Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that leads directly… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“As Helen Keller put it, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
