Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
SHERYL SANDBERGWe 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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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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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I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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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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