Top 100 Martha Stewart Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.”

— Martha Stewart

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

— Martha Stewart

3. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.”

— Martha Stewart

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

— Martha Stewart

5. “I have done nothing wrong.”

— Martha Stewart

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

— Martha Stewart

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

— Martha Stewart

8. “I want to focus on my salad.”

— Martha Stewart

9. “It is within everyone’s grasp to be a CEO.”

— Martha Stewart

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

— Martha Stewart

11. “I want you to know that I am innocent – and that I will fight to clear my name.”

— Martha Stewart

12. “Once you realize that you have identified a passion, invest in yourself. Figure out what you need to know, what kind of experience and expertise you need to develop to do the things that you feel in your heart you will enjoy and that will sustain you both mentally and economically.”

— Martha Stewart

13. “I invented ‘It’s a good thing’ before you were even born.”

— Martha Stewart

14. “Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work.”

— Martha Stewart

15. “So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.”

— Martha Stewart

16. “The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.”

— Martha Stewart

17. “All the things I love is what my business is all about.”

— Martha Stewart

18. “You have to focus on what’s important to you and go for it. But don’t stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you’re like that.”

— Martha Stewart

19. “Our passion is and should always be to make life better.”

— Martha Stewart

20. “I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.”

— Martha Stewart

21. “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.”

— Martha Stewart

22. “I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It’s my most telling characteristic. I’m interested in trying anything new.”

— Martha Stewart

23. “I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it’s not a waste of time.”

— Martha Stewart

24. “Of course I know how to roll a joint.”

— Martha Stewart

25. “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.”

— Martha Stewart

26. “Gardening is a humbling experience.”

— Martha Stewart

27. “The cocktail party is probably America’s greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.”

— Martha Stewart

28. “Don’t be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.”

— Martha Stewart

29. “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.”

— Martha Stewart

30. “The last place I would ever want to go is prison.”

— Martha Stewart

31. “I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.”

— Martha Stewart

32. “I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.”

— Martha Stewart

33. “It’s all about new techniques – simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.”

— Martha Stewart

34. “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. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.”

— Martha Stewart

35. “I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.”

— Martha Stewart

36. “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.”

— Martha Stewart

37. “My new motto is: When you’re through changing, you’re through.”

— Martha Stewart

38. “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.”

— Martha Stewart

39. “Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.”

— Martha Stewart

40. “I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.”

— Martha Stewart

41. “Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.”

— Martha Stewart

42. “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.”

— Martha Stewart

43. “I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.”

— Martha Stewart

44. “We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.”

— Martha Stewart

45. “Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.”

— Martha Stewart

46. “Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.”

— Martha Stewart

47. “I’m very inspired by nature – you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.”

— Martha Stewart

48. “Over 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 Stewart

49. “I was married for 30 years. Isn’t that enough? I’ve had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.”

— Martha Stewart

50. “I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.”

— Martha Stewart