Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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We’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.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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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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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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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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I’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.
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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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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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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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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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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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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Done is better than perfect.
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When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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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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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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