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  • 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.

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answer Japanese, the real response should be and is pierogi, the delectable Polish dumplings that my mother, Big Martha, made so well in many incarnations: potato, sweet cabbage, blueberry, peach, plum, and apricot.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Gardening is a humbling experience.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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'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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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 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.

  • I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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 have done nothing wrong.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • I want to focus on my salad.

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

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

  • I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.

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

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

  • 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.

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