Martha Stewart Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'

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

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#8. 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.

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

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Gardening is a humbling experience.

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

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

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#17. I have done nothing wrong.

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#18. I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.

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#19. 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.

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

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

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#22. 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.

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

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#24. 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.

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

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

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

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#28. 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.

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

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#30. 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.

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

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#32. 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.

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#33. The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

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

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

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#36. Write the book you'd want to read.

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#37. If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

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

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

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#40. For styling, I don't like a lot of mousse. I do use Sally Hershberger's Texture Blast, which is like a hair spray, but just at the roots. I have really good hair, and I don't like to plaster it.

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#41. Of course I know how to roll a joint.

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

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#43. I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

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

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#45. 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.

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

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

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

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#49. 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.

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

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#51. 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.

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

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#53. 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.

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#54. 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.

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

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

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#57. 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.

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#58. My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

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

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

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

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

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#63. 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.

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#64. Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

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#65. I want to focus on my salad.

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

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#67. 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.

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

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#69. 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.

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#70. 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.

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

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

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#73. 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.

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#74. 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.

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#75. 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.

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

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#77. I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.

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#78. 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.

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

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#80. 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.

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

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#82. 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.

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#83. 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.

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

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#85. 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.

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

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

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#88. I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle.

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#89. Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

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

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#91. 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.

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#92. I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

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

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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