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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Half of my employees are women.

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 know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm basically a gift-giver.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

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

Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.