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Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

Sheryl Sandberg

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Company People Value Worth Yourself
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Development Encouragement Gratitude Help People Success
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom
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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Believe Professional Time Work Yourself
Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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Better Change Home Men Ourselves Run Transformation World
I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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Believe Desire Difference Excellence Leadership Man Myself Win
I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Experience Path Togetherness Travel
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
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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Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Believe Confident Necessary Potential Worth
I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
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Career Company Feeling Growth Myself Place Quick Team
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Career Decision Important Life Relationship
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young

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