Christie Hefner Quotes
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Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
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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.
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With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.
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I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.
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We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.
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My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.
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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.
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While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.
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I think in the '80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of 'Playboy Magazine' in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.
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Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.
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I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.
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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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You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.
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I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.
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I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.
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Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
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The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.
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Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.
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I expected to go into journalism or law.
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I believed deeply that digital was an empowering opportunity for Playboy, not a threat.
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I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
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Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.
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I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.
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Nightclubs are a small-revenue business that go through pretty fast popularity cycles.