Sheryl Sandberg
Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.
I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.
Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.
What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.
When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.
Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.
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.
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.
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.
I really don't have any plan to leave Facebook. I put it so many times on the record, and I just don't get what to do to say it as clear as possible: I'm staying in Facebook; I really love my job.
I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'
I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier.
I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.
I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.
There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.
I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.
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.
As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.
When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.
There's no one way to grieve, and there's no one path.
I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.
I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.
I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.
I try to appreciate every day.
People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.
I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other.
We need to help people of all circumstance overcome the things in their life.
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.
I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.
I want people to help take care of each other at work. That's what I want. Do you know how many hours we spend at work? We spend more time at work than we spend at home. When people are suffering, we don't help enough.
Kids are resilient. My kids are resilient.
There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all of them.
Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.
We need to build resilience together, rooted in religion, rooted in schools, rooted in our health care institutions.
I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.
I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.
Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity.
False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.
I think the U.S. needs a better safety net... If you're a single mum or even a dual-parent working family, what do you do if you've got a sick child?
Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.
My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.
Before social media, if I, as an individual wanted to publish something to the world, unless I could get some local TV crew to interview me, or I wrote an op-ed or took out an ad, I had no voice.
Big businesses have always had a lot more voice. They can afford advertising; they can afford marketing. But for small businesses, being able to quickly and cheaply connect to customers is a big deal.
Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.
I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.
I've definitely learned how hard it can be to lean in when you're struggling at home.