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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Chance Inspirational Life Motivational Opportunity Yourself
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Goodness Help Job Men Women
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Children Life Marriage Partner Person Right Woman
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Space Time Women
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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Country Opportunity Potential Science Talent Technology True Women
What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
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Dream Hard Work Myself People
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Change Empowerment Future Leadership Transformation
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Choice Life Limitation Way
Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Advice Control Decision Oneself
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.’
SHERYL SANDBERG

Career Company Feeling Growth Myself Place Quick Team
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Ignorance Motivational Strong Voice Women
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
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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Change Powerful Reality Women
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom

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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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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