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

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“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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Media mogul and businesswoman who built Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia — a lifestyle empire spanning media, products,…