Hugh Hefner Quotes

• I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I’ve dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

  Hugh Hefner

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• I have no plans to retire. It’s the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

  Hugh Hefner

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• My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards – but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Folks, Standards

• I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Publishing, Theories

• When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Memories, Moved

• The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Idols, Growing

• The business end of business has never interested me.

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• My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I’m grateful.

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• I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

  Hugh Hefner

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• I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn’t have the wonderful children I have if I didn’t get married.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Married, Wonderful

• I remain very much connected to my childhood… I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Connected, Childhood

• The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Stayed, Styles

• People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Poorer, Information

• I am in very good health. I’ve never felt better.

  Hugh Hefner

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• Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don’t think so.

  Hugh Hefner

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• You know, from my point of view, I’m the luckiest cat on the planet.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Planet, Cat

• I don’t have dinner parties – I eat my dinner in bed.

  Hugh Hefner

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• Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn’t agree with – the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Agree, Persecution

• In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Imagined, Dreams

• I’m very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What’s most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Adolescence, Disappear

Hugh Hefner (29)

Birth:	9th April, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Publisher

About

Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an American men's lifestyle magazine publisher, businessman, and a well-known playboy. He is a former journalist for Esquire. He is best known for being the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. A self-made multi-millionaire, his net worth is over $43 million due to his success as the founder of Playboy magazine. He is also a political activist and philanthropist active in several causes and public issues. He served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946. He earned a BA degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

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