Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen 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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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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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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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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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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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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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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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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