"Build your skills, not your resume."
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"I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'"
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"Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder."
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"When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive."
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"Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier."
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"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."
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"Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks."
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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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"Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst."
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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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"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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"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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"I 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."
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"The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth."
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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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"Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success."
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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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"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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"Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized."
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"Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either."
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