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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More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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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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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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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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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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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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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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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