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.
SHERYL SANDBERGBeing confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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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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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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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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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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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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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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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Done is better than perfect.
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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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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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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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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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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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