The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
SHERYL SANDBERGI 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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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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 have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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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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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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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 know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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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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Build your skills, not your resume.
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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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