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

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.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!