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

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.

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.

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

I expected to go into journalism or law.

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups.

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.