Sheryl Sandberg
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Biography
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, philanthropist and writer. She was the chief operating officer of Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022 and is the founder of LeanIn.Org.
"Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills."
"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
"Done is better than perfect."
"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."
"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."
"If we could get to a place of true equality, where what we do in life is determined not by gender but by our passions and interests, our companies would be more productive and our home lives not just better balanced but happier."
"There aren’t enough women sitting at the tables where decisions are made."
"Reigniting the revolution means I want us to notice all of this and find ways to encourage more women to step up and more companies to recognize what women bring to the table."
"Women face huge institutional barriers. But we also face barriers that exist within ourselves, sometimes as the result of our socialization."
"I am not blaming women; I’m helping them see the power they’ve got and encouraging them to use it."
"We don’t really encourage women to be leaders."
"We call our daughters—but not our sons—bossy. We overestimate our sons’ crawling abilities and underestimate our daughters’."
"Women are given messages all through their lives that they shouldn’t lead."
"At the same time, the world still isn’t very welcoming or respectful toward full-time at-home dads."
"No one talks about gender in the workplace, because if you say the words "I am a woman," the other person is likely to hear "I want special treatment" or "I’m going to sue you.""
"One of my goals is to make gender an open and honest topic in the workplace."
"If we want to balance out leadership roles in the workplace, we have to balance out responsibilities in the home."
"We need to recognize that we can’t do it all, that we face trade-offs every single minute of the day. We have to stop beating ourselves up for not doing everything perfectly."
"The data show that success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. Which means that as women get more successful, they are liked less—both by men and by other women. That’s because we want people to conform to our stereotypes."
"We expect men to have leadership qualities, to be assertive and competent, to speak out. We expect women to have communal qualities, to be givers and sharers, to pursue the common good."
"But the struggles I write about are the ones all women face: the struggle to believe in yourself, to not feel guilty, to get enough sleep, to believe that you can be both a good professional and a good parent."
"Crying at work is not a best practice."
"I’m not recommending that if you want to get to the top, you should break out the tissues. But we’re human, and it’s important to broaden the kinds of behaviors that are acceptable at work."
"The media rarely depict working women with children as happy and adjusted and comfortable with themselves."