Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg

“She is very ambitious” is not a compliment in our culture.

I learned to undistort the distortion.

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders—including female leaders themselves.

you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

“Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.”

When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters.

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.”

the “Tiara Syndrome,” where women “expect that if they keep doing their job well someone will notice them and place a tiara on their head.”