But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
SHERYL SANDBERGBuild your skills, not your resume.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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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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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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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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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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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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