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.
SHERYL SANDBERGIt’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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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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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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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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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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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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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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I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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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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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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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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