If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
Martha Stewart
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 invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
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.
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 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.
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 love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
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 admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
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.
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 have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
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'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.
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
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.
The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
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.
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.
All the things I love is what my business is all about.
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 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.
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.
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 think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.
The last place I would ever want to go is prison.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.
I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
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.
My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.
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.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
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'm a maniacal perfectionist.
I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
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.
I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.
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.
