And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
SHERYL SANDBERGAiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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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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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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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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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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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.
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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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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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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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Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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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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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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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