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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’

Sheryl Sandberg

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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Education Girl Myself Serious Young
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Goodness Help Job Men Women
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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Achievement Goodness Man Marriage Myself Parents Woman Young
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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Leadership Presence Result Success
When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Company People Value Worth Yourself
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Desire Fears Fortune Promise Try Yourself
When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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Difficult Empathy People Suffering Thinking
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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Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Choice Home Myself Son Success
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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Country Opportunity Potential Science Talent Technology True Women
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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Believe Desire Difference Excellence Leadership Man Myself Win
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Care Motivation People Work
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 SANDBERG

Dream Hard Work Myself People
Nobody can succeed on their own.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Alone Company Success Team

Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’

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