Sheryl Sandberg Quotes - Page 4

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

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?

And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.

At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.

I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there - and yes, this still happens to me. And when I'm not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway.