Quotes from Sheryl Sandberg

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

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.

I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

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 want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

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.

At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.

I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

We need to help people of all circumstance overcome the things in their life.

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

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

Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

I've definitely learned how hard it can be to lean in when you're struggling at home.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

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.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.