Quotes by Christie Hefner

• 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.
• I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.
• I'm basically a gift-giver.
• The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.
• I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.
• In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
• Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
• My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
• No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
• I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
• Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
• I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.
• Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
• 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 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'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
• I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
• Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
• Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
• 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.
• Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
• Half of my employees are women.
• Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.
• 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.
• I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
• I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.
• I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
• I expected to go into journalism or law.
• I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
• I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
• I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.
• 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.