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“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.”
“Every day is quite unique, which is one of my favorite things!”
“I want our staff to be able to feel like themselves.”
“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.”
“I'm not going out there screaming, 'I'm CEO! I'm CEO!' That's not the way to do it.”
“You can always change your branding or hire lawyers, but it's critical that you figure out if you have product market fit, and if you don't, figure out how to course-correct without getting stuck.”
“When I dance, I go to a different side of who I am. I feel like I can solve a problem without knowing I'm solving one.”
“The impact we have on people's lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.”
“People saw more magic in me than I saw.”
“You should wake up in the morning and say, 'What do I want to do today? What's going to make me happy?'”
“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.”
“It's about knowing yourself and what you're good at. Females, males - anyone can be anything they want to be.”
“I'm 4'11", but that doesn't matter if I'm showing conviction and confidence in what I'm doing.”
“I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.”
“You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.”
“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.”
“In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.”
“My assumption was that people are already motivated to go to a fitness class. That's who I am. I was already ready to go out there and get to class. All I needed was a search tool. But it turns out people need more than that, and that's why gym memberships exist.”
“I will always do what's best for the company.”
“What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to keep moving forward.”