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

Sheryl Sandberg

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.’
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Career Company Feeling Growth Myself Place Quick Team
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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Career Force Myself Need Stay Thinking Woman Work
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Achievement Ambition Men Success
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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Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
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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Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
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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Career Choice Life Limitation Way
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Connection Family Loyalty Organization Support
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Empathy Reality Wisdom
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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Education Girl Myself Serious Young
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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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
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.
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Change Ignorance Motivational Strong Voice Women
I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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Believe Desire Difference Excellence Leadership Man Myself Win
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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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait

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