Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen 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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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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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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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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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Done is better than perfect.
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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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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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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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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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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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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 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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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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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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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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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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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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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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