Christie Hefner Quotes
You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.
Quotes to Explore
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
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If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
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The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
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Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
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Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
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You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.
