If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERGThe No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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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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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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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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You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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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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We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
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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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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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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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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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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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