Quotes from Payal Kadakia

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

The only way to do everything in your life is to find awesome people to lean on so you can focus your time.

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

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.

I get bursts of creativity with bursts of physical activity.

Working out is so mentally and physically important.

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.

I am anal about my Gmail calendar. It's my life. I put everything in there - my to-do list, or even if I want to do things.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

Surround yourself with people who lift you higher.

Surround yourself with people who only lift you higher.

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

In running my own company, I was too busy for a while, and I thought, 'Maybe I'll stop dancing for a bit.' It was the worst decision ever. I just lost my creativity and my drive.

I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.

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

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

Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.

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

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

Every day is quite unique, which is one of my favorite things!