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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

Sheryl Sandberg

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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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
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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Difference Life Perspective Work
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Care Motivation People Work
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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Authentic Leadership Perfection Powerful Women
Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
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Change Learning Myself Need Perspective Thinking
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait
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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Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
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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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
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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Leadership Presence Result Success
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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Company Country Equality Home Inspirational Man True Word
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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Children Life Marriage Partner Person Right Woman
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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Care Children Couple Fundamental People Responsibility Women
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Choice Home Myself Son Success
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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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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