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.
SHERYL SANDBERGEveryone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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’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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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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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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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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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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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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