Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. — 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
Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that… — 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
In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers… — 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 Image
“Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, “Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 have a partner. They were right. I didn’t get it. I didn’t get how hard it is to succeed at work when you are overwhelmed at home. I wrote a chapter titled “Make Your Partner a… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
