Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
SHERYL SANDBERGBring 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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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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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.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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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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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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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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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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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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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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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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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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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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 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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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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