Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. Sheryl Sandberg More Quotes by Sheryl Sandberg More Quotes From Sheryl Sandberg There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities. Sheryl Sandberg stress inspiring graduation When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. Sheryl Sandberg sexy crazy husband Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. Sheryl Sandberg boards jobs people For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. Sheryl Sandberg mothers-day grandmother inspiring And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym? Sheryl Sandberg tiaras jungle gym I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning. Sheryl Sandberg heart past thinking The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one. Sheryl Sandberg hundred important men The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting. Sheryl Sandberg women careers work I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance. Sheryl Sandberg running life lying Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice. Sheryl Sandberg voice powerful inspiring The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options. Sheryl Sandberg plans reason today Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy. Sheryl Sandberg girl jobs boys We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing. Sheryl Sandberg different business inspiring 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. Sheryl Sandberg skills men people There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start. Sheryl Sandberg giving-up jobs children What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters. Sheryl Sandberg dream running thinking I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead. Sheryl Sandberg daughter winning believe In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress. Sheryl Sandberg women work jobs I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do. Sheryl Sandberg often-can strong moving When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. Sheryl Sandberg women smart work
