Top 50 Payal Kadakia Quotes

We stipulate about where we need to be in life: By this age you should be married, by this age you should have kids. But it’s not that you can only do this or only do that. It’s really about creating a holistic life: about planning ahead and being efficient with your time and really listening to yourself.

I will always do what’s best for the company.

We’re encouraged by the engagement on ClassPass and the tremendous growth we’ve had that shows we are fulfilling our mission of helping people live a more active life.

I want little girls to believe that they can be CEOs.

Without a story, people aren’t going to connect to what you’re telling, what you have a pain point about. It’s so important for them to know why you’ve created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have – why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?

I needed to build a product that got people back to working out.

I’m not going out there screaming, ‘I’m CEO! I’m CEO!’ That’s not the way to do it.

You can’t replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.

There are so many times when I think I don’t have time to dance, but I force it into my life because I know it’s so important.

Having challenges in your life open doors for you.

If I exercise once or twice a day on vacation and don’t want to wash my hair too often. I pack a lot of dry shampoo, like Amika’s.

Surround yourself with people who only lift you higher.

I basically live in workout clothes.

I’m 4’11”, but that doesn’t matter if I’m showing conviction and confidence in what I’m doing.

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline… and the ability to know you can grow.

Movement inspires a lot in me.

I think it’s so important to have a great support network when you feel like you can’t – I would actually go and talk to the people who tell you that you can.

I love barre because even when I’m not dancing, I feel like I’m training those same muscles.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that’s almost the most exciting part.

Surround yourself with people who lift you higher.

You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.

If you feel good, it doesn’t matter what you’re wearing.

You need to keep having data points of progress, so even if an investor – and we’ve all had investors say no to us – there are times where you go back, and you keep them in the loop, and you keep telling them the progress and the perseverance you have.

Every moment you wake up and you want to go for a run, or you want to take a class, you should be able to just go.

I truly believe that everyone can be creative; you just need to find your form of expression.

I want to stay active. I want to find that mind-body connection every single day, and I want other people to have that because we spend our lives on our phones, at our desks. We’re not thinking about our bodies and the mental connections we should be having, and those moments help us push through to live our best life.

The impact we have on people’s lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.

When something is aspirational, you don’t want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.

I’m an artist in my heart.

I plan my time to a ‘T.’ I plan when I am going to sleep; I plan when I am going to relax. I obviously leave time to have spontaneous life experiences – I think that’s really important. But so much of it is setting up you mental energy in the right way to get the most out of your day and time.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they’re doing.

I like to work out every single day. And it’s about movement.

I love meeting our users and partners and talking to them about how ClassPass has made an impact.

No business is good when, on the last day of the month, you’re like, ‘What was the usage for the month?’

I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.

I travel pretty frequently, but a few things that are routine are going for a run, getting my green tea in the morning, and checking email… well, all the time!

I reason that as long as I’m smiling 90 percent of the time, I can handle the setbacks that occur 10 percent of the time.

As long as I’m building and doing what I want to do, that’s the only thing that matters.

When it’s time to recharge, I don’t feel guilty about it.

You should wake up in the morning and say, ‘What do I want to do today? What’s going to make me happy?’

I believe you win the race by looking forward, not behind.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

As we’ve got more data, and ClassPass has grown, we’ve had to change rather than have a one-size fits all approach.

Sometimes females feel like they should act like men, but they should really just be themselves.

It’s really about if you do the work. Work hard; your results will speak for themselves.

The variety and flexibility of ClassPass is limitless, ensuring that you’ll never get bored, and neither will your muscles.

You have to learn to sell yourself. I think people forget they need to look at where else they’ve really performed in their life, where they’ve been in a place where they were confident.

The more you practice something, the easier it’ll become.

We’re not trying to be Nike. It’s about evolving into new products that are going to make people’s lives better.

It’s OK when something doesn’t work. It gives you another data point when things do work.