Less than six months after I started at Facebook, Mark and I sat down for my first formal review. One of the things he told me was that my desire to … - Sheryl Sandberg

when you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress. Mark was right.

One of the things he told me was that my desire to be liked by everyone would hold me back. He said that when you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

One of my goals is to make gender an open and honest topic in the workplace.

But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in the streets, they envisioned a century later, men and women would be truly equal. A century later, we are still squinting, trying to bring that vision into focus.

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.