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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

Sheryl Sandberg

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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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
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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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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Appearance Choice Weird
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Believe Success Yourself
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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Ability Important Leadership Learning Opportunity Perfect Quality Yourself
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Empathy Reality Wisdom
I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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Believe Desire Difference Excellence Leadership Man Myself Win
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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Change Powerful Reality Women
I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Job Myself Woman Work
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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Issues Life Lose Work
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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Believe Desire Fears Fortune Promise Try Yourself
When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Change Perseverance Success

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