Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
SHERYL SANDBERGAiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
SHERYL SANDBERGWe’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
SHERYL SANDBERGCareers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen 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 SANDBERGBuild your skills, not your resume.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERGCommunication 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.
SHERYL SANDBERGWomen need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
SHERYL SANDBERGI’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
SHERYL SANDBERGI’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
SHERYL SANDBERGBeing confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
SHERYL SANDBERGUntil women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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