If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERGWomen need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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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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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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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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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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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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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When 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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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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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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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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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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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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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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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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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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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