There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.
If you are pleasing everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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?
Excel and you will get a mentor.
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.
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.
The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave.
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.
Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.
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.
We’ve got to get women to sit at the table.
Nobody can succeed on their own.
When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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.