The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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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.’
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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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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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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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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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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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