Sheryl Sandberg

“A study in the last two years of people entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, I guess, are negotiating their first salary, and only seven percent of women.”

“Number one: sit at the table.”

“And the problem is this: Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world.”

“Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women.”

“He changed exactly one word: "Heidi" to "Howard." But that one word made a really big difference.”

“The bad news was that everyone liked Howard.”

“And so I said, "Did you just move into this office?" And he said, "No, we've been here about a year." And I said, "Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a year?" And he looked at me, and he said, "Yeah.”

“Because what the data shows, above all else, is one thing, which is that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.”

“If a woman and a man work full-time and have a child, the woman does twice the amount of housework the man does, and the woman does three times the amount of childcare the man does.”

“Because no one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side, not at the table, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.”

“190 heads of state -- nine are women.”

“And three, don't leave before you leave.”

“The numbers have not moved since 2002 and are going in the wrong direction.”

“And if two years ago you didn't take a promotion and some guy next to you did, if three years ago you stopped looking for new opportunities, you're going to be bored because you should have kept your foot on the gas pedal.”

“I think there's a really deep irony to the fact that actions women are taking -- and I see this all the time -- with the objective of staying in the workforce actually lead to their eventually leaving.”

“In the high-income part of our workforce, in the people who end up at the top -- Fortune 500 CEO jobs, or the equivalent in other industries -- the problem, I am convinced, is that women are dropping out.”

“And most importantly, men attribute their success to themselves, and women attribute it to other external factors.”

“I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home, and I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

“A recent study in the U.S. showed that, of married senior managers, two-thirds of the married men had children and only one-third of the married women had children.”

“We also have another problem, which is that women face harder choices between professional success and personal fulfillment.”

“I've become convinced that we've made more progress in the workforce than we have in the home.”

“I think a world where half of our countries and our companies were run by women, would be a better world.”

“Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.”

“Everyone who's been through this -- and I'm here to tell you, once you have a child at home, your job better be really good to go back, because it's hard to leave that kid at home.”

“We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.”

“And my daughter, who's three, when I dropped her off at preschool, did that whole hugging-the-leg, crying, "Mommy, don't get on the plane" thing.”

“If you test men and women, and you ask them questions on totally objective criteria like GPAs, men get it wrong slightly high, and women get it wrong slightly low.”

“I wish I could go tell all the young women I work for, these fabulous women, "Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself.”

“Now people talk about this a lot, and they talk about things like flextime and mentoring and programs companies should have to train women.”

“Who do you think drops out when someone needs to be home more?”

“So she's got three jobs or two jobs, and he's got one.”

“And even in the non-profit world, a world we sometimes think of as being led by more women, women at the top: 20 percent.”

“And if you're in this room today, most of us grew up in a world where we have basic civil rights, and amazingly, we still live in a world where some women don't have them.”

“What are the messages we tell our daughters?”

“In the corporate sector, women at the top, C-level jobs, board seats -- tops out at 15, 16 percent.”

“I think, as a society, we put more pressure on our boys to succeed than we do on our girls.”

“So I'm not saying that staying in the workforce is the right thing for everyone.”

“So for any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky.”

“Now, at the outset, I want to be very clear that this speech comes with no judgments.”

“And I don't think Sunday football-watching and general laziness is the cause.”

“My talk today is about what the messages are if you do want to stay in the workforce, and I think there are three.”

“And I realized he doesn't know where the women's room is in his office.”

“My generation really, sadly, is not going to change the numbers at the top.”

“You need to feel like you're making a difference.”

“And she starts thinking about having a child, and from the moment she starts thinking about having a child, she starts thinking about making room for that child.”

“A couple of years ago, I was in New York, and I was pitching a deal, and I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture.”

“If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, "I'm awesome.”

“Today I want to focus on what we can do as individuals.”

“I want to start out by saying, I talk about this -- about keeping women in the workforce -- because I really think that's the answer.”

“I know men that stay home and work in the home to support wives with careers, and it's hard.”

“Women do not negotiate for themselves in the workforce.”

“Your job needs to be challenging.”

“What are the messages we tell the women that work with and for us?”

“It's not just because people would know where the women's bathrooms are, even though that would be very helpful.”

“He then surveyed the students, and the good news was the students, both men and women, thought Heidi and Howard were equally competent, and that's good.”

“When I go to the Mommy-and-Me stuff and I see the father there, I notice that the other mommies don't play with him.”

“I know no women, whether they're at home or whether they're in the workforce, who don't feel that sometimes.”