Martha stewart quotes

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

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

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.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

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

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

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

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

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

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

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

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

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

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.

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

I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.

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

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.

I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.

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

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 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.

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

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

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

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.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

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

Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you can focus on your real interests and ideas. 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.

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.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

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.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

You have to be open to change. 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.

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.

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

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

I want to focus on my salad.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

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.

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.

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

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

I live in the same house I’ve lived in for 25 years. I haven’t gone off and bought mansions, you know, 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… and that’s a secret. And people don’t know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, 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.

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

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.

If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.

Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time.

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

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

The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.

Write the book you'd want to read.

I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.

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

Of course I know how to roll a joint.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

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

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.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

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.

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

Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.

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.

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

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

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

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

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.

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.

My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

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

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.

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.

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.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

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.

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.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

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.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.

I have done nothing wrong.

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.

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.

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

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