Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart
Martha Helen Stewartis an American businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising, and electronic commerce. She has written numerous bestselling books, is the publisher of the Martha Stewart Living magazine, and hosted two long-running syndicated television shows, Martha, which ran from 2005 to 2012, and Martha Stewart Living, which ran from 1993 to 2005...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 August 1941
CityJersey City, NJ
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.
It's totally out of desire and totally out of belief that - not that I am essential, but that I am still a vibrant, wise human being with great dreams for the future, great hopes for the future, a great team to work with and a really great company to be involved with, ... I mean, this is my life.
My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We tried very hard to choose contestants that would be good for a job at Martha Stewart Living, ... It's not very different from what reality is.
What the heck are girls walking around in Dutch outfits selling tulips... what do they have to do with the brand?
The probation officer assigned to (Stewart) will basically be her CEO,
I used to wear fur, but like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.
Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
Quitters? Forget it... I don't think I've ever quit a job... I've gone through JAIL, I could have whined and cried... I made the best of a very difficult situation.
Being an animal lover it was very difficult to go through,