I'm basically a gift-giver.

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.

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

Starve your distractions feed your focus.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.

I watched '12 Angry Men' when I was a kid. It blew me away definitely.

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Americans love to read about violence.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.