Christie Hefner Quotes

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

Half of my employees are women.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

I'm basically a gift-giver.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.