Sheryl Sandberg
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.Collection: Progress
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.Collection: Work
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.Collection: Underestimate
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.Collection: Motivational
I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.Collection: Running
Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.Collection: Inspirational
Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.Collection: Daughter
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
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 that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.Collection: Perfection
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.Collection: Believe
It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.Collection: Leader
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Opportunity
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.Collection: Country
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.Collection: Perfection
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.Collection: Inspirational
I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.Collection: Inspirational
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.Collection: Dream
There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.Collection: Opportunity
Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.Collection: Decision
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.Collection: Leader
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.Collection: Believe
Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.Collection: Work
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.Collection: Senior
When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Men
You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Country
When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.Collection: Couple
You need to feel that you're making a difference.Collection: Differences
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.Collection: Work
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?Collection: Tiaras
Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the tableCollection: Girl
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?Collection: Two
We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.Collection: Believe
We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.Collection: Jobs
Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.Collection: Grief
The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.Collection: Today
No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.Collection: Believe
Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.Collection: Men
We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.Collection: Men
The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.Collection: Real
Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.Collection: Real
The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.Collection: Work
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.Collection: Professional Success
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 real social and professional cost.Collection: Real
I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.Collection: Strong
The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.Collection: Jobs
Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!Collection: Leadership