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Martha Stewart Quotes

20 quotes from Martha Stewart — Media mogul and businesswoman who built Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia — a lifestyle empire spanning media, products,….

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

Lifelong Learning

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion.

Success

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Order

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Success

I have done nothing wrong.

Integrity

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

Perseverance

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Curiosity

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

Leadership

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

Home

I'm very inspired by nature—you could say Mother Nature.

From a 2013 interview with ParentsInspiration

I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company.

An interview with Oprah WinfreyPerfection

I want to focus on my salad.

Focus

Entertaining, by its nature, is an expansive gesture, and demands an expansive state of mind.

Martha Stewart, Entertaining (1982)

We're sort of like a conglomerate for the home and the homemaker. So the homemaker needs good, comfortable shoes.

Martha Stewart, interview with Fortune (2021)

Aging isn't something I think about. How old I am, slowing down, retiring — I just don't dwell on that. People talk about aging successfully, but I think of it as living gracefully and living to the absolute fullest.

Martha Stewart, AARP interview (2023)

It was totally doable, what I was doing, if you put in the time and the energy, and didn't mind getting exhausted.

Martha Stewart, interview (2025)

Entertaining provides a good excuse to put things in order.

Martha Stewart, Entertaining (1982)

I made homemaking an art form.

Martha Stewart, MAKERS interview

I never serve snacks at parties. It's either hors d'oeuvres or a meal.

Martha Stewart, Reddit AMA (2014)

I always knew I needed to be an earner, and I certainly wasn't taught, and wasn't really aware of, or focused on, any type of racial or gender discrimination, or anything about glass ceilings.

Martha Stewart, interview with Bedford & New Canaan Magazine (2022)

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