A biography for Christie Hefnerhasn’t been written yet.
“It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.”
“Hef is a man of the big picture. He is a creative force.”
“In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?”
“I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.”
“We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.”
“I consider myself very fortunate to grow up in a time when my family, my friends don't look at me funny because I'm a 29-year-old single woman.”
“Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.”
“My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.”
“I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.”
“Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.”
“We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.”
“I'm not much of a 'road not taken' person.”
“You can't delegate turning a company around.”
“Half of my employees are women.”
“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.”
“I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.”
“Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.”
“I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.”