Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
SHERYL SANDBERGIt’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Done is better than perfect.
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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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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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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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