Martha Stewart famous quotes

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
-- Martha Stewart

#Business #Life Is #Complicated

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.
-- Martha Stewart

#Sleep #Decision #Big Decisions

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.
-- Martha Stewart

#Ideas #People #Creative

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.
-- Martha Stewart

#Accepting #Should #Feels

Of course I know how to roll a joint.
-- Martha Stewart

#Marijuana #Joints

Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more confidence.They teach us with common sense and determination we can turn what looks like a disaster into a triumph.
-- Martha Stewart

#Determination #Believe #Common Sense

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.
-- Martha Stewart

#Real #Heart #Animal

I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.
-- Martha Stewart

#Age #Important #Attention

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
-- Martha Stewart

#Inspirational #Cutting #Pie

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
-- Martha Stewart

#Business #Educational #Thinking

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
-- Martha Stewart

#Inspirational #Real #Sleep

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
-- Martha Stewart

#Zero #Goal #Challenges

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
-- Martha Stewart

#Success #Mind #Open Minded

All the things I love is what my business is all about.
-- Martha Stewart

#Business #Love Is #Blogging

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day
-- Martha Stewart

#Business #Something New #Teach

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
-- Martha Stewart

#Bulldogs #Brilliant

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.
-- Martha Stewart

#Party #America #World

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
-- Martha Stewart

#Running #Queens #Jobs

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion
-- Martha Stewart

#Passion #Recipes #Ingredients

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
-- Martha Stewart

#Time #Thinking #Naps

I want to focus on my salad.
-- Martha Stewart

#Hilarious #Focus #Salad

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.
-- Martha Stewart

#Mom #Mean #Home

This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come in with their cups of coffee and stuff. And so I get here and I have a spot for a cappuccino machine, and it didn't work. So I don't have any cappuccino ... I didn't miss the cappuccino, I missed the idea of cappuccino.
-- Martha Stewart

#Coffee #Ideas #Missing

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.
-- Martha Stewart

#Wells #Executives

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
-- Martha Stewart

#Parent #Curious #Wanted

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.
-- Martha Stewart

#New York #Inspiration #Ideas

I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.
-- Martha Stewart

#Rip #Garden #Thinking

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.
-- Martha Stewart

#People #Buying #Tvs

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
-- Martha Stewart

#Taste #Dessert #Guilty

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
-- Martha Stewart

#Very Good #Cooks #Good Cook

I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
-- Martha Stewart

#Dirty #Years #Underwear

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
-- Martha Stewart

#Experts #Kind #Popularity

I live in the same house I've lived in for 25 years. I haven't gone off and bought mansions. Even though my subject is living, living in a mansion wouldn't do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we're in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And that's a secret. People don't know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, but it's the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall; it helped a lot. But it's the same place, the same grounded nature.
-- Martha Stewart

#Wall #Thinking #Years

Our passion is and should always be to make life better.
-- Martha Stewart

#Passion #Should

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.
-- Martha Stewart

#Home #Reflection #Phases

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
-- Martha Stewart

#Life #Change #Motto

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.
-- Martha Stewart

#Dream #Goal #Gathering

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.
-- Martha Stewart

#Ceo

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
-- Martha Stewart

#Achievement #Standards #Embarrassed

For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.
-- Martha Stewart

#Real #Thinking #Dedication

Once you realize that you have identified a passion, invest in yourself. Figure out what you need to know, what kind of experience and expertise you need to develop to do the things that you feel in your heart you will enjoy and that will sustain you both mentally and economically.
-- Martha Stewart

#Heart #Passion #Needs

Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.
-- Martha Stewart

#Beautiful #Dream #Home

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at - just walking around Williamsburg, for example - is a great opportunity for ideas. I've been here before, I've seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they've attached a light to a house.
-- Martha Stewart

#Learning #Eye #Opportunity

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
-- Martha Stewart

#Fighting #Names #Want

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work
-- Martha Stewart

#Want #Study

I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.
-- Martha Stewart

#Tired #Important #Bed

I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
-- Martha Stewart

#Sick #Waste #Wasting Time

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.
-- Martha Stewart

#Steps #Technique #Faster

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.
-- Martha Stewart

#Home #Ideas #Relief

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
-- Martha Stewart

#Past #Clothes #Long

Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.
-- Martha Stewart

#Writing #Editors #Done

Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.
-- Martha Stewart

#Blessed #Holiday #Thinking

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream-to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.
-- Martha Stewart

#Dream #Teacher #Thinking

When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.
-- Martha Stewart

#Success #Children #Crazy

When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.
-- Martha Stewart

#Success #Mom #Teacher

We're not so free that we don't have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that's what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.
-- Martha Stewart

#Success #Dream #Thinking

The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.
-- Martha Stewart

#Live Life #Mean #Passion

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.
-- Martha Stewart

#Success #Way #Ladders

I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.
-- Martha Stewart

#Wish

We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.
-- Martha Stewart

#Kids #Home #Garden

I have sometimes, probably, forgotten - and I know I have - to pat the back of someone or said thank you enough times or maybe even once sometimes I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person.If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.
-- Martha Stewart

#Men #Perfect #Wish

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
-- Martha Stewart

#Thinking #People #Said

We actually have some gay people that work with us, and we have a lot of friends that are gay, too, and I know that this song has inspired them... I know that coming out was tough on their parents and on them and the whole entire family. For a long time, some of them didn't get to hear 'I love you' from their dads or be accepted in that way. ... It's helped a lot of our friends... We don't judge anybody's lives.
-- Martha Stewart

#Song #Dad #Love You

I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.
-- Martha Stewart

#Beautiful #Wine #Glasses

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
-- Martha Stewart

#Opportunity #Ideas #Looks

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
-- Martha Stewart

#Weekend #People #Maine

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.
-- Martha Stewart

#Revenge #Middle #Middle Aged

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
-- Martha Stewart

#Today #Ankles #Microphones

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.
-- Martha Stewart

#Weather #Cotton #Bed

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
-- Martha Stewart

#Garden #Thinking #Effort

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
-- Martha Stewart

#Good Things #Born

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
-- Martha Stewart

#Thinking #Knowing #Helping

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
-- Martha Stewart

#Hate #House #Bigs

I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company.... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.
-- Martha Stewart

#Book #Passion #Creating

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.
-- Martha Stewart

#Technology #Trying #Different

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.
-- Martha Stewart

#Good Life #Mistake #Return

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.
-- Martha Stewart

#Running

You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.
-- Martha Stewart

#Home #Knowing #People

Gardening is a humbling experience.
-- Martha Stewart

#Garden #Gardening #Humbling Experiences

I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.
-- Martha Stewart

#Divorce #Names #Separation

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.
-- Martha Stewart

#Mother #Animal #Pet

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
-- Martha Stewart

#Interesting

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.
-- Martha Stewart

#Asking #My Family #Colleagues

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.
-- Martha Stewart

#Thinking #Trying #Projects

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
-- Martha Stewart

#Self #Succeed #Admire

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
-- Martha Stewart

#Believe #Men #Mind

Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.
-- Martha Stewart

#Funny Valentines Day #Cat #Smell

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.
-- Martha Stewart

#Reality #Thinking #Years

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
-- Martha Stewart

#Love #Success #Baseball