Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
SHERYL SANDBERGCareers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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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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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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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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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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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Done is better than perfect.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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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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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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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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