Martha Stewart
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.Collection: Great
You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life.Collection: Birthday
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.Collection: Independence
You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.Collection: Diet
My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.Collection: Learning
I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.Collection: Teacher
My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication.Collection: Communication
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.Collection: Courage
If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'
I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
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.
My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.
The last place I would ever want to go is prison.
There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.
I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.
It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style.
I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.
I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
All the things I love is what my business is all about.
I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
One of the things I do to stay healthy and fit is to make sure I exercise every single day. Aside from eating right and getting enough sleep, exercise keeps me trim and boosts my energy.
I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
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.
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.
When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
I'm a maniacal perfectionist.
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
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.
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.
I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
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.
Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.
Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.
I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.