Machiavelli For Women Quotes

“Machiavelli, incidentally, saw support roles as a trap for an up-and-coming prince. “He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined…,” he writes (Chapter III, MPE). If you succeed at your job, the person you are assisting will never want to see you promoted: You’re too useful to them right where you are!”
― Stacey Vanek Smith, Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace

“The consequences of a lack of confidence show up in all kinds of ways, including how we value ourselves and our work. In study after study, men place a higher dollar value on their work than women do. In one study, men and women were presented with a task and then asked to pay themselves what they felt they deserved. Men paid themselves 63 percent more, on average, than women did and were significantly less productive.”
― Stacey Vanek Smith, Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace

“Let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. This lukewarm temper arises partly from the fear of adversaries who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event (Chapter VI, DTE).”
― Stacey Vanek Smith, Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace

“Dr. Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and coauthor (with Richard P. Halgin) of Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders”
― Stacey Vanek Smith, Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace