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 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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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.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
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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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