Helen Gurley Brown Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Talking #Failing #Boring
“Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Reading #Healing #Writing
“Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Insecure #Feelings #Use
“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Success #Common Sense #Intellectual
“Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Successful #Careers #Envy
“Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Raw Materials #Materials
“Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Men #Use #Want
“After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Birthday #Retirement #Money
“Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Hate #Positivity #Needs
“Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Two #Bottles #Body
“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Money #Comfort #Doe
“The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Inspiration #Thinking #Stuff
“Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Kindness #Trouble #Alligators
“some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Years #Glasses #Office
“Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Trying #Adrenal Glands #Good Marriage
“The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Men #Dating #Want
“We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Trying #Feedback #Bermuda
“Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Sex #Analysts
“If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Sex
“There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Years #Lunch #Way
“Talkers expand like bread dough.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Talking #Bread #Dough
“you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Motivation #Book #Writing
“Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Blow #Stuff #Killers
“I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Book #Thinking #Two
“Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Real #Waiting #Wool
“Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Brain #Looks #Next
“Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Important #Looks #Body
“Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Sex #Two #Three
“good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere”
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Funny #Hilarious #Girl

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