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
My goal with this book is to help people turn their passions into successful businesses, as I did myself through many of the things I learned over the years,
The reason this company has been so successful is that we connect each and every day,
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.
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.
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.
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.
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business,
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.