We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.
Martha StewartOver the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.
Martha StewartI have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. Iโm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at โ just walking around Williamsburg, for example โ is a great opportunity for ideas. Iโve been here before, Iโve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way theyโve attached a light to a house.
Martha StewartFor me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.
Martha Stewart