The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
SHERYL SANDBERGI 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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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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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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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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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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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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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