Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

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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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Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

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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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And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

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Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

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Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,

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She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.

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Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

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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." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

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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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We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership,

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When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

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When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

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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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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

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When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

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Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

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Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

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I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

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If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can... and accepting them.

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We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

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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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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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