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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

Sheryl Sandberg

When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Change Perseverance Success
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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Business Disappoint Enemy Expectation Inspirational Perfection Try
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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Need Ourselves Phone Success White Woman
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
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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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
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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Achievement Childhood Expectation Leadership Live Men Ourselves Reason Women
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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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
I’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.
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Change Equality Home Men Woman
I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Experience Path Togetherness Travel
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
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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Goodness Help Job Men Women
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Opinion People Thinking Yourself
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
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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Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Care Motivation People Work

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