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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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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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The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.
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I don't think you can know too many smart people. I don't think you should ever stop meeting people.
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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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I think this country is growing up a little bit.
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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 consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.
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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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Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.
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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.
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I expected to go into journalism or law.
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Nightclubs are a small-revenue business that go through pretty fast popularity cycles.
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Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
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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 don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
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If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.
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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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I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.
Christie Hefner
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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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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.
Christie Hefner -
I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.
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