Christie Hefner Quotes


"I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build."
- Christie Hefner
"I'm basically a gift-giver."
- Christie Hefner
"The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: College, First, Right)

"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Business, School)

"In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Car, Money, Boyfriend, College, Memory)

"Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: People, Taxes, Want)

"My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Mother, Company)

"No, I never thought about my father's money as my money."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money, Thought, Father)

"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money, Day)

"Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money)

"I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Work, People)

"We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money, People, Fight, Hate)

"Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Sexuality)

"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."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Business, Love, Life, People, Being)

"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."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Business, Skill, World, Years)

"I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Men, Women)

"I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Love, Women, Respect)

"Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Leadership, Being)

"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
(Related: Business, Career, Decisions, Investment)

"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."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Change, Women, Age, Business, People, Help, Will, World)

"Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money)

"Half of my employees are women."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Women, Employees)

"Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Time, Old, Parents, Years)

"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."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: People, Decision, Right)

"I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Self, Sense)

"I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: World)

"I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Success, Financial)

"I expected to go into journalism or law."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Journalism, Law)

"I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money)

"I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: College, English)

"I have invested in the stock market since I was very young."
- Christie Hefner
"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."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money, Time, Baby, Christmas, Gifts)