Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

Larry said he could understand the complaint, but what he did not understand was that all the people who quit - every single one - had unused vacation time. Up until the day they left, they did everything McKinsey asked of them before deciding that it was too much.

Larry implored us to exert more control over our careers. He said McKinsey would never stop making demands on our time, so it was up to us to decide what we were willing to do. It was our responsibility to draw the line.

...intelligence and success are not clear paths to popularity at any age. This complicates everything, because at the same time women need to...own their success, doing so causes them to be liked less.

A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.

Effective communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others. When we recognize that we can see things only from our own perspective, we can share our views in a nonthreatening way.

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

"Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next thirty years, what difference does going "back" four years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward."

As Gloria Steinem observed, “Whoever has power takes over the noun — and the norm — while the less powerful get an adjective.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” For

When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is “not well-liked by her peers.” She is probably also “too aggressive,” “not a team player,” “a bit political,” “can’t be trusted,” or “difficult.

When we are no longer able to change a situation,” psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, “we are challenged to change ourselves.” After

You can’t do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic ’til dawn … Superwoman is the adversary of the women’s movement.”5

That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.