Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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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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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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When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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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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When 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.
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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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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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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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What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
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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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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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