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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.

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
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Enough Inspirational Progress
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
SHERYL SANDBERG

Breathe Leadership Perspective Skill Time Yourself
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
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
Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Advice Control Decision Oneself
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Dream Hard Work Myself People
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Difference Life Perspective Work
Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Brave Fortune Inspirational Try Yourself
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Leadership Role Woman
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
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.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Equality Home Men Woman
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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Need Ourselves Phone Success White Woman
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Space Time Women
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Change Empowerment Future Leadership 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.

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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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