Quotes from Christie Hefner

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

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.

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.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

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.

The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.

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

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

Half of my employees are women.

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

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.

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

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

Part of brand management is what you don't do, not what you do.