Christie Hefner Quotes

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Christie Hefner

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : November 8, 1952

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

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

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

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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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No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

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It's embarrassing to be in the only westernized economy that doesn't have paid family leave and flex scheduling, and that disproportionately helps women.

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When I first came to Playboy, I thought I would go on and do something else in a few years. But when the company got into trouble with political and regulatory challenges, I felt that I could really lead the turn around.

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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.

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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 father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.

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I consider myself very fortunate to grow up in a time when my family, my friends don't look at me funny because I'm a 29-year-old single woman.

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In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

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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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I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

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I'm basically a gift-giver.

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

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

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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.

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Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

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I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

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