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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

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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Leadership Presence Result Success
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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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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Better Change Home Men Ourselves Run Transformation World
When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Change Perseverance Success
Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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Determination Easy Hard Life Try Yourself
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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Country Opportunity Potential Science Talent Technology True Women
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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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
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Career Company Feeling Growth Myself Place Quick Team
I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Experience Path Togetherness Travel
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
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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Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Home Success Women
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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Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
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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Existence Expectation Home Time Trust Value Women Work
Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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Issues Life Lose Work
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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Believe Feminism Inspirational Motivational Run Thinking Word
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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Happiness Inspiartional Luxury Passion Path Success
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
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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Children Life Marriage Partner Person Right Woman
So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Afraid Brave Myself Yourself
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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Believe Desire Fears Fortune Promise Try Yourself
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Dream Encouragement Possible Woman
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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Education Girl Myself Serious Young
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Believe Success Yourself
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Change Leadership Role Woman
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Career Decision Important Life Relationship

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