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.
SHERYL SANDBERGEvery job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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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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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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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.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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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.
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