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.
SHERYL SANDBERGNext time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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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’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 go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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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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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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