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.
SHERYL SANDBERGBeing confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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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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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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Build your skills, not your resume.
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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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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Done is better than perfect.
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We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
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Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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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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Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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