503 Quotes by Sheryl Sandberg

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward – I’m 43 now – fitting in is not helping us.

I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.

When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

You should also be aware of the internal barriers that we often impose on ourselves. Too many women sit on the side of the room when they should be sitting at the table. Too many women lower their voices when they should be speaking up. This is not our fault. We internalize messages that say it’s wrong for us to be outspoken, aggressive, and as powerful as – or even more powerful than – men.

Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp, the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible self. After.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.

This is the second worst moment of our lives. We lived through the first and we will live through this. It can only get better from here.

I thought resilience was the capacity to endure pain, so I asked Adam how I could figure out how much I had. He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity – and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone. Since.

Coming from Google, you don’t exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.