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.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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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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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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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 go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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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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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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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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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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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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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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