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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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Advice Boy Commitment Crazy Husband Life Marriage Relationship Woman
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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Believe Desire Fears Fortune Promise Try Yourself
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Development Encouragement Gratitude Help People Success
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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Believe Professional Time Work Yourself
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Dream Encouragement Possible Woman
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
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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Company Different Focus Growth Oneself
When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Company People Value Worth Yourself
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Change Perseverance Success
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
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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Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Care Motivation People Work
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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Career Decision Marriage Yourself
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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Ability Important Leadership Learning Opportunity Perfect Quality Yourself
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.
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Change Equality Home Men Woman
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Avoid Choice Demand Job Necessary Sacrifice
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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Authentic Leadership Perfection Powerful Women
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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Goodness Help Job Men Women
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
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
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Change Empowerment Future Leadership Transformation
Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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Change Help Inspirational Philosophy Positive Wisdom
Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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Business Disappoint Enemy Expectation Inspirational Perfection Try
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Believe Confident Necessary Potential Worth

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