Top 156 Quotes & Sayings by Martha Stewart
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer Martha Stewart.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
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.
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 love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.
I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
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.
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.
My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication.
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.
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.
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 was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
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.
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.
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 want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
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.
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
The last place I would ever want to go is prison.
So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
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.
All the things I love is what my business is all about.
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.
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
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.
I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
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'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
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.
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.
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 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 have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.
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.
Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'
My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
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.
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.
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.
Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
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.
I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.
I'm a maniacal perfectionist.
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.
If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
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.
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.
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.
Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
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