I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
SHERYL SANDBERGOur 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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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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 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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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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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 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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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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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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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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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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