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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Empowerment Future Leadership Transformation
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Equality Home Men Woman
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Authentic Leadership Perfection Powerful Women
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
Build your skills, not your resume.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Choice Skill Yourself
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Enough Inspirational Progress
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Communication Silence Start Truth Understand View
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Better Change Home Men Ourselves Run Transformation World
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Herself Leadership Visual Wait
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Dream Hard Work Myself People
Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Brave Fortune Inspirational Try Yourself
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Empathy Reality Wisdom
Done is better than perfect.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Complete Improvement Perfection
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Success Yourself
It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Children Life Marriage Partner Person Right Woman
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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Change Learning Myself Need Perspective Thinking

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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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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