Victoria Principal quotes:

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this

I don't see it as a risk, I see it as living.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good

There's got to be grief.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.