If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERGMotivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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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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When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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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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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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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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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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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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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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