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 SANDBERGReal change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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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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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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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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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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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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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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Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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