Martha Stewart Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day. — Martha Stewart
I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. — Martha Stewart
We actually have some gay people that work with us, and we have a lot of friends that are gay, too, and I know that this song has inspired them ... I know that coming out was tough on their parents and on them and the whole entire family. For a long time, some of them didn't get to hear 'I love you' from their dads or be accepted in that way ... It's helped a lot of our friends ... We don't judge anybody's lives. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted. — Martha Stewart
Never make a big decision without sleeping on it. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. — Martha Stewart
I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos. — Martha Stewart
Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter. — Martha Stewart
I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born. — Martha Stewart
If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new. — Martha Stewart
My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted. — Martha Stewart
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. — Martha Stewart
Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about. — Martha Stewart
When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place. — Martha Stewart
The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again. — Martha Stewart
I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
Our passion is and should always be to make life better. — Martha Stewart
Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that. — Martha Stewart
Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life. — Martha Stewart
I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today. — Martha Stewart
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it. — Martha Stewart
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. — Martha Stewart
I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way. — Martha Stewart
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class. — Martha Stewart
When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance. — Martha Stewart
My dream ... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. — Martha Stewart
I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time. — Martha Stewart
Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers. — Martha Stewart
Gardening is a humbling experience. — Martha Stewart
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you ... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication. — Martha Stewart
There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
Write the book you'd want to read. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
Of course I know how to roll a joint. — Martha Stewart
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different. — Martha Stewart
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together. — Martha Stewart
Life is too complicated not to be orderly. — Martha Stewart
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
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. — Martha Stewart
I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider. — Martha Stewart