Christie Hefner Quotes

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

Christie Hefner

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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.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Power
  • Team
  • Community

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• 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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Professional
  • First
  • Him

• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Country
  • Found
  • Fantastic

• 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.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Should
  • Israel
  • Treachery

• 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.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Time
  • Day
  • Step

• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Mean
  • Language
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Life
  • Been
  • Sets

• We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.

  

  Kristi Noem
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.

  

  Denise Mina
  • School
  • House
  • Chaos

• How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

  

  Mark Harmon
  • Up
  • Fly

• I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

  

  Mitch Hedberg
  • Business
  • Though
  • Blocking

• Eventually the dollar won't always rule. Eventually there will be a challenge to the United States and it will have to be like other countries that are a bit concerned about their currency, and then have to ratchet back in order to - right, in order to sustain. We just haven't reached that point yet.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • Challenge

• You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Business
  • Reading
  • Leadership