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 SANDBERGIt’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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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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I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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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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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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Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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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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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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