Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
SHERYL SANDBERGEveryone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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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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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Done is better than perfect.
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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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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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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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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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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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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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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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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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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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.
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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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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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