Christie Hefner Quotes

To this day people will say, 'What do you think about doing 'Playboy?'' I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.

Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could.

Mike had called me and said he could offer me less, and I said, "You're on!" Because I was really excited with what Mike Kelly was doing, and now what Cullen Murphy is doing with Atlantic. It's a really cool magazine.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man!

The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Express' was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I don't think that most of my peers in rock criticism are from the West Coast. I think most of them are from the East Coast.

By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of slippers than one of the satin corsets the Bunnies used to wear.

These social platforms are all invented by very liberal people on the West and East Coast, and we figure out how to use it to push conservative values. I don't think they ever thought that would happen.

Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him.

A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula.

We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.