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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.

Sheryl Sandberg

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
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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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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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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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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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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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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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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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Done is better than perfect.
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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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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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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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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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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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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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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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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.
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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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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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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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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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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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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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