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"A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward."
"Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward."
"Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making."
"You need to feel that you're making a difference."
"No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential."
"Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills."
"The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them."
"Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?"
"We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing."
"I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women."
"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."
"Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal."
"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."
"There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start."
"People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead."
"I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias."
"The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home."
"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
"And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?"
"Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table"