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

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

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.

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

Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.

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

I'm basically a gift-giver.

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

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

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

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

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

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

I expected to go into journalism or law.

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.

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've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

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

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

Half of my employees are women.

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

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

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

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.

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

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.

I'm not much of a 'road not taken' person.

I like dressing sexy, and I like having a good time.

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

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

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

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.

It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

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

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

I think this country is growing up a little bit.