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.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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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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There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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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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Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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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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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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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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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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