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.
SHERYL SANDBERGI know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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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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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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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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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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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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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 go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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