Christie Hefner

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.