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.

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.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.