Helen Gurley Brown famous quotes

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

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Marriage #Thinking #People

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Best Love #Giving #Radio

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Real #Love Is #Real Love

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Running #Caring #Thinking

The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I see are simply those who stay cheerful and try to cheer up others while getting through their own bad stuff
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Beautiful #Cheer #People

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Sex #Trouble

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Girl #Sleep #Men

My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Girl #Sex #Philosophy

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Realizing #Self Knowledge #Wells

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Matter #Situation #Okay

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Men #Bed #Wonder

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Friendship #Life Changing #Mean

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
-- Helen Gurley Brown

#Stay Strong #Bed #Reason