So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhat 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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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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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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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Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Done is better than perfect.
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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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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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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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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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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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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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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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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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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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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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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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No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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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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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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