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.

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.

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

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.

Aspirations without preparations will simply give you life full of frustrations. Develop yourself today!

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.

I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

Popeyes and Taco Bell. I try to be healthy, but they're just so good.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.