Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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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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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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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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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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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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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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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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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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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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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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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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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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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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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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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