Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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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 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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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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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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Women 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.
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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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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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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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But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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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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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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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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