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Jobs Quotes by Sheryl Sandberg

15 Jobs quotes by Sheryl Sandberg

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When you think about the grind of a career, Sheryl Sandberg offers a steady voice that cuts through the noise. Her reflections on jobs blend practical advice with a touch of optimism, giving you a quick yet solid look at what it means to find meaning in the daily hustle.

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

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I would be better at my job if I were technical.

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What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of…

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Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people…

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Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job…

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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…

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At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make…

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We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had…

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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…

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In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you…

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The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in…

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Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that…

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People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers…

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In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees,…

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There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be…

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“Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, “Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.”

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“[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to…

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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…

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“One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking…

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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…

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“When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t…

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“Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.”

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I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.

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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…

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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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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…

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“As Helen Keller put it, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that…

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“Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off…

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