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.
SHERYL SANDBERGI have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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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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