Christie Hefner

Businesswoman

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

You can't delegate turning a company around.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.

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

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

The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.

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.

I'm basically a gift-giver.

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

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

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

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

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