Martha Stewart Quotes

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.

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 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.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

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

I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.

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

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy.

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I want to focus on my salad.

Don't give up. Defend your ideas, but be flexible. Success seldom comes in exactly the form you imagine.

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.

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.

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

I have done nothing wrong.

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

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.

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

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

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

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

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.

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

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

Loving yourself is good for your health.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

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.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Of course I know how to roll a joint.

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.

Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.

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

I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 use the same products on my body as I use on my face. I don't think there's really any difference between the two, so the more moisturizers and serums you use, the better off you are.

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

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

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