Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen 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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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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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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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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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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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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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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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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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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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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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.
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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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