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.
SHERYL SANDBERGDone is better than perfect.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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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Build your skills, not your resume.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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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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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.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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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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I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
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You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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