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

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

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

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

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

At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table

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.

Half of my employees are women.

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

I expected to go into journalism or law.

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

I didn't originally want to be an actor. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

It is what the Taoists say: The way to do is to be.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.