So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
SHERYL SANDBERGNobody can succeed on their own.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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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.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
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Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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