Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
Half of my employees are women.
I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.
I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.
I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
I expected to go into journalism or law.
I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.
I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
I recently borrowed money to exercise a lot of stock options that were expiring, so I own more shares than I ever owned before.
I think a lot of the issue of girls and math, and now the issue of girls and computers, starts in grammar school.
I think I had a savings account and savings bonds, but I don't remember being oriented toward savings as a child.
I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.
I was always very close to my mother and my grandmother, my dad's mother. They gave me great values, and they had great confidence in me.
I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.
I'm basically a gift-giver.
I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.
I've since gotten to know Warren Buffett, who actually was helpful as a sort of kitchen-cabinet adviser when we were doing the recapitalization.
In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
My mother and brother and I lived in an apartment in the city, and then when my mother remarried, we moved to Wilmette.
My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
My sense of my standard of living growing up in the suburbs and graduating from New Trier was pretty much the same as everyone else there: upper middle class, not opulent but certainly very comfortable.
No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.
She no longer has a staple in her navel.
Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.
Virtually all the stock I own now is what I've earned through the stock option plan.
We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.
Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
Daughter of Hugh M. Hefner.
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