Top 55 Christie Hefner Quotes

I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother’s compassion, intelligence, and maturity.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

You can’t delegate turning a company around.

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 had higher math SATs than in English – yet I became an English major in college.

The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.

I’m surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn’t have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn’t want to sell any stock.

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.

I think in the ’80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of ‘Playboy Magazine’ in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.

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’m among the many Chicagoans who love to take advantage of the opportunity to dine outdoors in the summer months.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I’m basically a gift-giver.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

I think when you’re on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it’s kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

I freelanced for the ‘Boston Phoenix.’

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

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.

What’s funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

I’ve always believed about brands and media that the mistake sometimes that’s made is to think you’re just going to take what you’ve been doing and kind of re-purpose it into the new platform. I don’t think that ever works because consumers look for different experiences in different media formats.

I’d guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

I’m private because I want to be private.

My father has always enjoyed games… always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

To me, saying you’re not a feminist should be like saying you’re a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

Playboy’s all about why it’s worth working so hard.

I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women’s vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women’s health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

I believed deeply that digital was an empowering opportunity for Playboy, not a threat.

Nightclubs are a small-revenue business that go through pretty fast popularity cycles.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

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.

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.

Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

I never thought I was going to go to work for my father’s company.

I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.

It’s difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you’re used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.

I don’t think you can know too many smart people. I don’t think you should ever stop meeting people.

I don’t think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

I don’t think ‘Playboy’ would have been successfully started on either coast.

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.

Before I went to work for ‘Playboy,’ I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master’s. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.

I’m not much of a ‘road not taken’ person.

I’ve always believed that a goal in life is not to own a boat but have a friend with a boat.

I didn’t have the luxury of devoting myself entirely to not-for-profit activities.

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

I’m motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

I think I’ve established my own identity here at Brandeis.

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.

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.

It’s not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.