If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERGMost people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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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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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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I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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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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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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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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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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When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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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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Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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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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